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Cwmystwyth Mines

Cwmystwyth, Ceredigion

Ruined lead mines worked for 4,000 years, left to the mountains.

People have mined lead and copper at Cwmystwyth since the Bronze Age. In the 1800s it was a busy mining village.

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When
Bronze Age to 1916
Where
52.3600, -3.7800
Group
Lost & drowned villages

Visiting

Visible from the mountain road between Devil's Bridge and Rhayader.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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