Hello Alwyn
Thabnks for yourd etailed reply and sorry for the delay in replying -- been
away for a week and just catching up.
Many thanks for all your suggestions. The Llanerch slant is a mid-19C slant,
but presumably in much the same area as the 18C level which "came to the
yard" at Llanerch. What I was really trying to establish was what the phrase
"came to the yard" means, but nobody seems to have come across it. The most
convincing suggestion is that "yard" is simply the area riound the levl
mouth, so "come to the yard" means "reached the surface". There is a Three
Feet seam in the lower Swansea valley but I don't think it was ever called
the Yard Seam, always the Three Feet.
Paul
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From: "Alwyn Evans" <[log in to unmask]>
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Subject: Llanerch
> Is this what you're looking for?
> It's on p.44 of the deskbased archaeological survey of the Lower Swansea
> Valley
>
> Alwyn Evans
>
> _http://www.scribd.com/doc/19837936/Lower-Swansea-Valley_
> (http://www.scribd.com/doc/19837936/Lower-Swansea-Valley)
>
>
> NAME
> 02262.0w
>
> Tir Isaf Tramway
> NGR
>
> PERIOD
> SS6698595452
>
> Post-medieval
> SUMMARY
> A tramway marked on the first edition (1881) Ordnance Survey map. The
> tramway is shown as running betweenthe Swansea Valley Line (ID 1699.0w)
> and two
> coalmines, Fowlers Pit (PRN 01924w) and Tir Isaf Pit (NPRN401516,
> labelled as Llanerch Slant on the second edition (1899) Ordnance Survey
> map. A
> branch line is shown asrunning to a series of coke ovens (ID LSV037)
> (Toft
> 1990, 8). The regional HER states that this tramway servedthe Middle
> Bank Pit
> (ID 1919w) but there appears to be no cartographic evidence to support
> this. By the time of the third edition (1917-1919) Ordnance Survey map
> the
> entire line is marked as disused. A short section of theroute survives to
> the
> present day as the route of a footpath.
>
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