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Clwyd Metal Mines Survey
Brynsion
Brynsion lies in the community of Ysceifiog in the county of Flintshire. It is located at Ordnance Survey national grid reference SJ13607190. The mine is recorded in the CPAT Historic Environment Record as number 18024 and this number should be quoted in all correspondence.Lead (1887-1888)
Geology
Carboniferous Limestone.
Workings
Evidence remains as two shafts in well-established private woodland to the west of Bryn Sion Farm. There are no spoil or waste remains, just the shaft depressions, indicating a short period of mining. No evidence is apparent on the farm pasture land,
although the farmhouse was probably the site of the mine buildings.
Transport
No evidence.
Power
No evidence.
Processing
No evidence.
Other features
The site is on the crest of a bare limestone ridge and an area of disused quarrying and old limekilns lie at SJ13807165.
This HTML page is reproduced from the Powys and Clwyd Metal Mine Surveys which were undertaken between May 1992 and December 1993 by Mark Walters and Pat Frost of the Clwyd Powys Archaeological Trust with financial support from Powys County Council, Clwyd County Council and Cadw: Welsh Historic Monuments. Further information about this site is available in CPAT's Regional Historic Environment Record.
Page produced by Rachel Stebbings and Chris Martin.