>Perhaps a reader with experience of Welsh slate mines could comment
>on the possibility of the use of slate headframes; do they exist?
>
By and large Welsh Slate mines were underground quarries, and worked by
adit or incline. The only shafts I can think of were pump shafts,
Dorothea and Oakley being two examples which spring to mind.
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