Harvestman at Large
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This is Garn Ddyrys, site of the first significant ironworks of the industrial revolution. The pool in the foreground is made-made, being the reservoir of water used to cool the molten iron when it was poured out of the furnace into the molds as 'pig iron'. There is no longer a pool here normally, but the recent rain has partially refilled it.
Where the two sheep are you may be able to make out a gap in the wall. This is the outflow for the pool, where water was drained off into the ironworks which sat immediately downslope from this pool. The pool was then maintained by a series of feeder ponds higher on the hill, including Keepers Pond, which is visible in several of my other photos.
As such, this is a very significant industrial heritage site, and is part of the Blaenavon World Heritage site.
In the background can be seen the peak known as Sugar Loaf, which 10 minutes previously had not been visible at all because of the hailstorm that preceded this photo.
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'Lecture mode on'
This is Garn Ddyrys, site of the first significant ironworks of the industrial revolution. The pool in the foreground is made-made, being the reservoir of water used to cool the molten iron when it was poured out of the furnace into the molds as 'pig iron'. There is no longer a pool here normally, but the recent rain has partially refilled it.
Where the two sheep are you may be able to make out a gap in the wall. This is the outflow for the pool, where water was drained off into the ironworks which sat immediately downslope from this pool. The pool was then maintained by a series of feeder ponds higher on the hill, including Keepers Pond, which is visible in several of my other photos.
As such, this is a very significant industrial heritage site, and is part of the Blaenavon World Heritage site.
In the background can be seen the peak known as Sugar Loaf, which 10 minutes previously had not been visible at all because of the hailstorm that preceded this photo.
'Lecture mode off'