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Trac fforest / Forest track

Ruin at foreground is 1750's mine office. Ruin at the back is 1826 gunpowder magazine awaiting restoration.

The road provides access to the extensive forestry area covering Banc Creignant Mawr.

Llwybr ceffyl yn arwain tuag at y tir agored. A bridleway heading in the direction of open country.

Otherwise Ponterwyd Mountain. 1200 ft a.s.l. The edge of the forestry on Banc Creignant Mawr is just visible on the sky line.

I presume this is a replica rather than an original.

Waterwheel pit at the top of the mining site.

The first bit of track just inside the square boundary. This part of the track is also a bridleway, and offers a pleasant and quiet walk.

Now a museum site. The mine operated predominantly as a lead mine but there was admixed silver that was worth recovering. The ore was argentiferous galena. This is the top of the shaft that is flooded below adit level. Visitors can walk... (more)

The sign warns people not to climb on adjacent timber stacks.

Another look at the track, this time around the first corner in the square coming from the east. See also SN7381 : Forestry track on Banc Creignant Mawr.

A Grade II Listed structure with the only entrance facing north away from the mine.