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| Members of Plas Tan y Bwlch Industrial Archaeology Group. NPRN 400427 |
The long established Plas Tan y Bwlch Industrial Archaeology
Group has recently finished their annual field school in Snowdonia. The focus of this year’s work was MaenofferenSlate Quarry in Blaenau Ffestiniog, where the Royal Commission has been
undertaking survey and investigation as part of its Slate Quarries Project. Royal Commission Investigator Louise Barker
spent two days working alongside the group who spent their time enhancing the Commission’s
survey with valuable additional information on specific aspects of the site such
as the machinery and underground remains.
The combined work will produce a valuable record of the
quarry and will also be featured in the Commission’s forthcoming publication on
the Archaeology of the Slate Industry, written by the Plas Tan y Bwlch course
leader Dafydd Gwyn and due out in 2014.
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| Aerial view of Maenofferen Slate Quarry, Blaenau Ffestiniog. NPRN 400427 |
05 Oct 2010
As
part of both the Commission's new Slate Quarries project and the
Atlanterra project, RCAHMW Investigators have just completed their first
week of survey at Maenofferen, part of the extensive quarrying complex
at Blaenau ...
11 Oct 2010
Survey
at Maenofferen is nearly completed with an overall site plan
encompassing the whole quarry complex including the original workers
housing, the inclines for carrying away the processed slate and the
tramways for ...
20 Oct 2010
The
saw mill, which developed over four separate phases, is the largest
building in the Maeofferen complex. A waterwheel in the centre of the
left hand bay was fed by a launder carried on stone piers which can
still be seen to ...
13 Oct 2010
The
winding house complex at the top of the underground incline. A series
of three winding drums in the centre section serve the rails, with a
boiler house, engine house and possible compressor house making up the
rest of ...
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