Dear Alisdair
You could try the Royal Commission for Ancient and Historic Monuments in Wales - RCAHMW - their website is: http://www.rcahmw.gov.uk/ and you will find the COFLEIN database there; it includes records of mine workings.
"Coflein is the online database for the National Monuments Record of Wales (NMRW), the national collection of information about the historic environment of Wales. The name is derived from the Welsh cof (memory) and lein (line).
Coflein allows access to details of many thousands of archaeological sites, monuments, buildings and maritime sites in Wales, together with an index to the drawings, manuscripts and photographs held in the NMRW archive collections. A growing number of online images are also available through the service. Sites can be displayed either on Ordnance Survey maps and queried geographically, or can be displayed as a series of text references. The data can be searched by location (place name, area or Ordnance Survey map sheet), by type (the classification or function of a site, monument or building) or by keyword."
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From: mining-history [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 13 February 2008 09:43
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Subject: Mining in Llangattock
The Badminton records at the National Library of Wales contain a number of
leases of calamine, lead, copper & tin in the Wastes of Crickhowel anmd
Tretower (nr Abergavenny), eg dated 1737.
Is anyone aware of any actual mining in this area?
The geological memoirs refer to quite common barytes mineralisation in the
Carboniferous Limestone in the area, and cave exploration in the Blorenge
area further south in the last 15 years has revealed extensive barytes
mineralisation with spectacular secondary copper deposits, but I have seen
no evidence that this was ever worked.
It of course lies just on the edge of the South Wales coalfield, & there
is much documentation of coal & ironstone mining from an early period in
the area.
Alasdair Neill.
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