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Cwm Pit and head of railway is a post-medieval and modern industrial mining site located in Wales, designated as a scheduled ancient monument under Cadw reference GM607. The site represents the infrastructure of coal or mineral extraction typical of Welsh industrial development during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, featuring both the pit workings themselves and associated railway infrastructure designed to facilitate the transport of extracted material. The surviving physical remains document the technical and logistical systems employed in small-scale or local mining operations characteristic of South Wales' industrial landscape. Such sites are significant for understanding the archaeology of industrialisation and the daily operations of extraction industries that shaped Welsh economic and social history during the modern period.
Cwm Pit and head of railway is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference GM607. View the official record →
Cwm Pit and head of railway is a post-medieval and modern industrial mining site located in Wales, designated as a scheduled ancient monument under Cadw reference GM607. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference GM607.
Cwm Pit and head of railway dates from the post medieval/modern period, and is classified as a mine. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Cwm Pit and head of railway 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 GM607.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Brynbychan Round Cairn (5.7 km), Cefn Merthyr Round Cairns (5.8 km), Rhos-Gwawr cairn cemetery (6.2 km).
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