Wales
Tredegar ironworks town and Sirhowy tips
Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Clay pipe stemsAlso reported: tramroad relics.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Why this spot
1880 historic-map era
Company iron town at the head of the Sirhowy valley, shipping iron down the 1805 tramroad to Newport; furnace banks, cinder tips and town-edge dumps span the 1800s.
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