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Multi-periodSite Name: Copa Hill Opencast Mine Alternative Name: Bryn Copa
Country: Wales
NOTE: This site is 2.3 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Ceredigion Type: Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
Nearest Village: Cwmystwyth
Map Ref: SN8116075220
Latitude: 52.362110N Longitude: 3.746644W
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**Copa Hill Opencast Mine** submitted by Anonymous : The info panels at the Bronze Age opencast copper mine above Cwmystwyth must be some of the most remote in Wales. Not signposted or on a footpath for safety reasons due to dangerous open workings on the way up. Photo credit: Mark Walters @MarkWalters_ on Twitter (Vote or comment on this photo)

An area with a complex and rich mining landscape, which spans ten historic phases of mining and prospection, overlain with a more recent agricultural landscape. Evidence of medieval and post- medieval elements and traces of a former prehistoric landscape are still recognisable.

Extensive archaeological survey work and investigation was carried out from 1986 to 1999. The earliest mining may have been commenced around 2500BC with surface collection of minerals and undercutting with fire used to excavate the rock and break up the copper ore. By 2000BC opencast mining was being carried out from the down-slope end of the trench, with the mine reaching its maximum depth about a hundred years later. Over the next two to three hundred years, following abandonment of the deeper sections of the mine due to water-logging, the mine continued to be worked upslope (northwards) on a more piecemeal basis. The mine was finally abandoned in 1600BC.
Source: coflein.gov.uk/en/site/33834/
See also: earlyminesresearchgroup.co.uk/comet%20lode%20-%20copa%20hill.html

WARNING: There are very dangerous open mine workings on the way up. Visiting without a guide who knows the area is not recommended.
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SN8074 : Lead mine workings above the road by Derek Voller — by Derek Voller
©2016(licence)

SN8174 : Road through Cwm Ystwyth by David Dixon — by David Dixon
©2016(licence)

SN8174 : Road towards Cwmystwyth by Steven Brown — by Steven Brown
©2023(licence)

SN8174 : Road near the Mines by Bill Nicholls — by Bill Nicholls
©2014(licence)

SN8174 : Afon Ystwyth and Cwm Ystwyth by Philip Halling — by Philip Halling
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