Arenig Fawr, Merioneth - Royal Commission on the Ancient and ...

Knowledge and understanding of manganese mining around <strong>Arenig</strong> <strong>Fawr</strong> would be
enhanced by a more detailed field survey. As stated above, Mynydd Nodol is a relict
mining landscape of distinctive character, which includes shafts and levels, but also
numerous opencast workings and prospecting trenches, and it is likely that some
additional smaller features would be revealed by detailed work that have not been
identified by the present rapid survey. Moel-y-Garth also has significant remains that
would benefit from detailed survey in a similar way. Evidence of mining on Pistyll Gwyn
is slight, perhaps partly because of backfilling of workings, although mining here was
never a substantial operation. Nevertheless it would benefit from more detailed survey.
It is unlikely that additional sites would be revealed on Moel Llyfnant but a detailed
survey would make sense of a micro industrial landscape which has evidence of
prospecting trenches, underground working, transport system and ore processing.
Modern Ordnance Survey maps show some prehistoric sites, but otherwise have no
other archaeological features, although many huts and folds are mapped as
topographical features. Other sites that should be appended to Ordnance Survey maps
are given in table 4.
NPRN
Site to be mapped
510555 Manganese mine
510567 Sheepfold
510582 Inclined plane
510583 Manganese mine
510591 Sheepfold
510593 Mine building
510605 Manganese mine
510606 Manganese mine
510607 Manganese mine
510615 Manganese mine
510663 Cairn
510665 Cairn
510671 Hut
510672 Enclosure
510720 Hut
510722 Hut/fold
510723 Hut
510775 Sheepfold
510787 Sheepfold
510841 Hut/fold
510842 Hut/fold
510843 Sheepfold
510844 Sheepfold
510847 Enclosure or sheepfold
510894 Sheepfold or hut
510897 Sheepfold
510899 Hut
510902 Sheepfold
510913 Sheepfold or hut
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