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Another mixed week in Wales, aircraft on Friday and Mines on Saturday (all washed down with plenty of Rev James).
Not much is known about this mine, not even it`s name, I was taken up there by one of the locals and even he did not know much about it, no entry on Aditnow so your guess is as good as mine.
The mine is about 3/4 of a mile to the west of Dinas Mawddwy on the hill side above the A470.
We found 5 possible adits.
1 with water way too deep for waders
1 Blocked by rock spoil from a timber road.
1 flooded but accessible
1 small adit leading to a drop from hell (about 100+ feet)
1 flooded, blocked and full of silt (unable to work out the depth)
The first picture is a plan from memory of the mine.
This is a side passage off to the right, it all looks innocent enough,you are walking
through 4 or 5 inches of water and its pitch black.
Now this is a close up shot of the end of the passage just before it doglegs right and carry`s on.
That`s one deep pit.
When walking along this passage you pass underneath the drop shaft/air shaft, it is reached by a small adit further up the hill side.
Looking in to the adit then looking do the f***** big arse drop.
Well there you go sports fans, thanks for looking, all and any comments are most welcome.
There are a few more pictures over on my FlickR site so head over too:-
https://www.flickr.com/photos/newage2/albums/72157696882890601
Cheers Newage
Another mixed week in Wales, aircraft on Friday and Mines on Saturday (all washed down with plenty of Rev James).
Not much is known about this mine, not even it`s name, I was taken up there by one of the locals and even he did not know much about it, no entry on Aditnow so your guess is as good as mine.
The mine is about 3/4 of a mile to the west of Dinas Mawddwy on the hill side above the A470.
We found 5 possible adits.
1 with water way too deep for waders
1 Blocked by rock spoil from a timber road.
1 flooded but accessible
1 small adit leading to a drop from hell (about 100+ feet)
1 flooded, blocked and full of silt (unable to work out the depth)
The first picture is a plan from memory of the mine.
![43156633101_1769db429d_b.jpg 43156633101_1769db429d_b.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/derelictplaces/data/attach/242/242357-43156633101-1769db429d-b.jpg)
![42398291834_53effd968e_b.jpg 42398291834_53effd968e_b.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/derelictplaces/data/attach/242/242358-42398291834-53effd968e-b.jpg)
![42398293674_04df22a408_b.jpg 42398293674_04df22a408_b.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/derelictplaces/data/attach/242/242359-42398293674-04df22a408-b.jpg)
This is a side passage off to the right, it all looks innocent enough,you are walking
through 4 or 5 inches of water and its pitch black.
![42398295404_4bf1ff0c91_b.jpg 42398295404_4bf1ff0c91_b.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/derelictplaces/data/attach/242/242360-42398295404-4bf1ff0c91-b.jpg)
Now this is a close up shot of the end of the passage just before it doglegs right and carry`s on.
![42212223305_b754206d8e_b.jpg 42212223305_b754206d8e_b.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/derelictplaces/data/attach/242/242361-42212223305-b754206d8e-b.jpg)
That`s one deep pit.
When walking along this passage you pass underneath the drop shaft/air shaft, it is reached by a small adit further up the hill side.
Looking in to the adit then looking do the f***** big arse drop.
![43066803722_1b4eb6f3da_b.jpg 43066803722_1b4eb6f3da_b.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/derelictplaces/data/attach/242/242362-43066803722-1b4eb6f3da-b.jpg)
![28247453257_ce3cdf3243_b.jpg 28247453257_ce3cdf3243_b.jpg](https://cdn.imagearchive.com/derelictplaces/data/attach/242/242363-28247453257-ce3cdf3243-b.jpg)
Well there you go sports fans, thanks for looking, all and any comments are most welcome.
There are a few more pictures over on my FlickR site so head over too:-
https://www.flickr.com/photos/newage2/albums/72157696882890601
Cheers Newage