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Nant-y-Garw Lead Mine is a post-medieval and modern industrial lead mine located in Breconshire, Wales, reflecting the region's exploitation of metalliferous resources from the early modern period onwards. The site comprises the physical remains typical of lead mining operations, including mine workings, associated infrastructure, and landscape modifications characteristic of small-scale to medium-scale extraction enterprises in the Welsh uplands. Lead mining in Breconshire, like much of Wales, intensified during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and continued into the nineteenth century as demand for lead increased. The surviving archaeological features at Nant-y-Garw provide evidence of the historical mining economy that shaped the landscape and communities of the Brecon Beacons region.
Nant-y-Garw Lead Mine is a scheduled monument protected by Cadw under reference BR233. View the official record →
Nant-y-Garw Lead Mine is a post-medieval and modern industrial lead mine located in Breconshire, Wales, reflecting the region's exploitation of metalliferous resources from the early modern period onwards. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Cadw under reference BR233.
Nant-y-Garw Lead Mine dates from the post medieval/modern period, and is classified as a lead mine. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across Britain.
Nant-y-Garw Lead Mine 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 BR233.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Hafod Rhiwnant Deserted Rural Settlement (0.6 km), Drygarn Fach round cairn (4.4 km), Gorllwyn round cairns (4.5 km).
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