Archaeological Investigations at Ffos-y-fran

A4060 stone tramroad bridge

A4060 tramroad stone bridge

To the west of the old A4060 road is a stone bridge, which most likely dates to the early 19th century and once spanned a tramroad.  In the late 19th... Read More
View to the south east of pit 1 shaft

Dowlais Pit 1

The concrete cap of Dowlais pit number 1 was discovered during the initial box cut works.  Archaeological works were then carried out on the area with stone and brick structures... Read More
Plate 14: Hand-built leat, part of the Dowlais Free Drainage System (© GGAT)

Evaluations and the Dowlais Free Drainage System

The Dowlais Free Drainage System is a complex drainage system, which supplied water to Dowlais Ironworks (Plates 14-15).  It used a series of hand-built drainage channels called leats and natural... Read More
Plate 7: View to south west of building next to Pen-y-Darren railway platform (© GGAT)

Penydarren Platform and Tramroad

GGAT has investigated a number of archaeological features known to exist in the path of the Bogey Road diversion. These included the Penydarren Station platform, a short surviving length of... Read More
Plate 11: View to south east of the holding pond in vicinity of Dowlais No. 6 Ironstone Pit

Dowlais Pit 6

Pit number six is located at the edge of the Box-Cut area and consists of a pit/mine shaft and a smaller air shaft.  This pit was used in the mining... Read More
Plate 3: View to west of Soap Vein Pithead chimney (© GGAT)

Soap Vein Pit Head Structure

Within the area of temporary overburden dump (OB2) the archaeological investigation centred on three specific areas; the excavation of a supposed early-Industrial ironstone pithead (NPRN 85558), the excavation of the... Read More
Plate 1. View to north-west before work started. Copyright GGAT

Settlement area (NPRN 88009)

The area we have called the settlement (NPRN 88009) is located on the west side of Ffos-y-fran, just east of the new and old A4060.  This area was initially identified... Read More
Plate 1: The eastern most structure of the brickworks. Most likely a type of Scotch Kiln

19th Century Brickworks

Brickworks During the archaeological evaluation of the site south of the Bogey road, part of a 19th century brickworks was discovered. Archaeological work was carried out by GGAT who excavated and... Read More