Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Rhode Wood Shaft Mounds
St. Mary Out Liberty, Pembrokeshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Shaft Mounds
- Period
- Post Medieval/Modern
- Date of designation
- 26 July 1994
- Community
- St. Mary Out Liberty
- Unitary authority
- Pembrokeshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.70517, -4.69719
- SAM number
- PE458
- Cadw record number
- 681
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument consists of the remains of a coal mine probably dating to the early eighteenth century to the 1860s. It consists of a group of well preserved relict shaft mound features: hollows and spoil heaps that indicate the use of small bell-pits for the primitive digging of anthracite seams near to the surface.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance and illustrate our knowledge and understanding of the development of the coalmining industry in Wales. It retains significant archaeological potential, with the strong possibility of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits. A caol mine may be part of a larger cluster of industrial monuments and their importance can further enhanced by their group value.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Cambrian HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- Swn y Mor HotelDomesticunder 1 mi
- The Hean InnCommercialunder 1 mi
- Rose CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.