In message <[log in to unmask]>, Dave
Linton <[log in to unmask]> writes
>I've had a query from the St Asaph Archaeological Society who are
>investigating a 16th C farmhouse site near Ysceifiog and have found two
>shafts there. The locations are SJ152712 and SJ153712. It's been
>suggested to them that manganese might have been mined there (which is
>why the query found its way to me) but from the location near Halkyn
>Mountain I would have thought lead to be the most likely prospect
>there.
The most likely ore is hematite. Early OS maps show iron workings nearby
to the west. However, manganese is mentioned in some sale particulars
for that land and that may be how the suggestion arose.
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Tony King
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