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Plantation Mine

Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 18176
Trust : Clwyd Powys
Community : Whitford
Unitary authority : Flintshire
NGR : SJ15407660
Site Type (preferred type first) : POST MEDIEVAL LEAD MINE / POST MEDIEVAL SILVER MINE

Description :
Lead/Silver (Early 18th century-1906)

Geology
Black Carboniferous Limestone with chert beds.

Workings
The Abandoned Mine Plan of 1904, deposited at CRO, Hawarden illustrates two shafts for the Plantation Mine as Plantation Shaft on the Holway Vein and the Coetia Eithin Shaft.

The mine sett lay immediately to the south-east of the crossroads opposite the Waen workings. The site is now occupied by a new house in extensive grounds. Any related earthworks or structures have been lost.

A further area of shafts can be located to the rear of a disused farm at SJ15607660; they appear as overgrown mounds. The shafts on this farm and the land on which new bungalows are built to the north of it have been subject to serious collapse during the past twenty years or so. The area seems to overlie the air shaft from Waen, which emerged at SJ15607660.

Plantatiom and Coetia Eithin Mines were drained by the Gorsedd Adit Level.

Transport
No evidence.

Power
The Sale Catalogue for 1904 deposited at CRO Hawarden for Plantation Mine lists the Plant and Machinery and includes a pair of portable winding engines, a horizontal cornish pump, a donkey feed pump, a set of crushing rollers, 3 compartment jiggers, a Blakes patent stone crusher, a pair of crushing rolls, trommels and lengths of launder etc. and an Evans Cornish pump with a suction condenser etc.

Processing
Documentary evidence only from the 1904 catalogue.

Other features
No evidence.

Sources :
Britnell, W J, Martin, C H R & Hankinson, R , 2000 , Holywell Common and Halkyn Mountain: Historic Landscape Characterization ( © Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust)
Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust , 1993 , Site visit record - PRN18176

Events :
39362 : Historic Landscape Characterisation, Holywell Common and Halkyn Mountain (year : 1999-2000)

Related records

Compiled date : 31-12-1995


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April 20, 2025, 1:08 pm - File produced for Archwilio from CPAT's Regional HER.
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