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Caerffili Mountain Shaft Mounds is a Post-Medieval and Modern industrial monument located in Wales, comprising a series of shaft mounds that represent the extractive industries which characterised the region during the industrial period. The site consists of subsidence features and spoil heaps created by underground mining or quarrying operations, typical of the intensive mineral exploitation that took place across South Wales from the eighteenth century onwards. These shaft mounds are physical evidence of the economic transformation of the landscape through coal mining, ironstone extraction, or similar industrial activities that defined the industrial heritage of the area. The monument is designated as a scheduled ancient monument under Cadw reference GM454, recognising its significance as a survival of Wales's industrial past.
Caerffili Mountain Shaft Mounds is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference GM454. View the official record →
Caerffili Mountain Shaft Mounds is a Post-Medieval and Modern industrial monument located in Wales, comprising a series of shaft mounds that represent the extractive industries which characterised the region during the industrial period. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference GM454.
Caerffili Mountain Shaft Mounds dates from the post medieval/modern period, and is classified as a shaft mounds. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Caerffili Mountain Shaft Mounds is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Cadw — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Wales. The official designation reference is GM454.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Melingriffith Water Pump (5.2 km), Cooking Mound East of Taff Terrace (5.4 km), Cross in Llandaff Cathedral (7 km).
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