South Wales Miners' Museum - Alchetron, the free social encyclopedia

🏴 SILENT MINES OF CYMRU | Wales’ Colliery Echoes | From Bronze-Age Depths to Valley Farewell ⚒️ Mining in Wales stretches back to the Bronze Age when small‐scale copper and lead workings tapped the rich geology of the land. Archaeological evidence shows that by Roman times, from the late 1st century AD onwards, the region yielded gold, copper, and lead ore. Over the 19th and early 20th centuries, coal mining exploded — especially in the South Wales Coalfield where by 1913 the port of Barry had