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Pant Du

Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 18148
Trust : Clwyd Powys
Community : Llanferres
Unitary authority : Denbighshire
NGR : SJ20405960
Site Type (preferred type first) : POST MEDIEVAL SILVER MINE / POST MEDIEVAL LEAD MINE / POST MEDIEVAL ZINC MINE

Description :
Lead/Silver/Zinc (1849-1891)

Geology
The Pant-Du Vein traverses Carboniferous Limestone outcrops.

Workings
The Pant-du Vein ran eastwards from the River Alyn through a limestone ridge. Evidence of workings within the area of Pant-du are spread over three seemingly distinct areas.

Shafts and spoil heaps fall downhill along the northern slopes of the limestone ridge to the south of the road leading to Burley Hill Quarry.

A second area of shafts and spoil lie in the field west of the Pant-du farm buildings running up the southern foothills of the limestone hill.

Goodwin's shaft is identifiable as a mound at SJ20605950. The Pant-du Company incorporated the earlier workings of the Goodwins' Mine.

Archaeology may have been lost to the quarrying to the west of this. The Pant-Du Engine Shaft was to the west of Goodwins.

The extreme western workings of the vein were in the Tir-y-Coed Woods. A single shaft at SJ21305960 lies to the north-west of Woodland Cottage and earthworks suggest an incline to bring the ore downhill and eastwards to the dressing floors around the Goodwin's Shaft area.

The whim shaft immediately to the west of Tir-y-coed farm is referrred to as the Truro whim and is unlikely to be part of Pant-Du workings.

Transport
No evidence.

Power
On the western flanks within the woodland of Big Covert, a stone chimney survives to full height, although its'outer stonework has fallen away on its'western side (SJ20305960). Its' flues are intact on either side, but no other evidence remains in the area.

Processing
No evidence.

Other features
No evidence.

Sources :
Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust , 1993 , Site visit record - PRN18148
Williams, C. J., & Bick, D , 1992 , List of metalliferous mine sites of industrial archaeological importance

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Compiled date : 31-12-1995


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April 20, 2025, 12:27 pm - File produced for Archwilio from CPAT's Regional HER.
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