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South Minera, Walker's Shaft

Primary Reference Number (PRN) : 18199
Trust : Clwyd Powys
Community : Esclusham
Unitary authority : Wrexham
NGR : SJ25305010
Site Type (preferred type first) : POST MEDIEVAL SILVER MINE / POST MEDIEVAL LEAD MINE / POST MEDIEVAL ZINC MINE

Description :
Lead/Silver/Zinc (1860s-1913)

Geology
Cefn-y-Fedw Sandstone overlying Carboniferous Limestone.

Workings
The South Minera Vein runs south-eastwards from the Pool Park Sett; worked by Walkers Shaft (SJ25305020) and Dixon's Shaft (SJ25754975), it continues as the Gomerian Drainage level with a line of adit shafts. The workings were later incorporated by the Minera Mountain Company who worked the sett until 1913.

The 1899 schedule of Buildings for the Minera Mountain Sett lists an agent's house, office and outbuildings, an engine house, cabin and a stable for Walker's Shaft.


Transport
No evidence.

Power
The engine house is destroyed to foundation level at SJ20355020. A large concrete platform lies to the north-west of it, being a much later feature.
Walkers' shaft is north of the engine house remains, surrounded by spoil tips. It appears to have housed a horizontal winding engine.

Processing
The remains of square ore bins appear on the sides of Walker's Shaft.

Other features
At SJ25305020, the stone foundations of a three roomed rectangular building. An iron plate in one wall indicates a chimney and the building could have been the smithy.

The remains of a building, partly rendered at SJ25255015, would suggest the agent's house and garden area.

Sources :
Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust , 1993 , Site visit record - PRN18199

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Compiled date : 31-12-1995


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April 19, 2025, 4:43 pm - File produced for Archwilio from CPAT's Regional HER.
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