Thanks, the workings was for Slate, both above and below ground, the spoil heaps are waste, slate and other rocks that were in the way... I guess the barracks were heated by coal... And their chapel was down the valley, so a long walk there and...
Must have been a bleak existence. Wondering what all the rock is? Are those tailings for mining something else, or was that rock what they were after?
Great music match; spooky and ominous. I wonder how/if they heated those dwellings.
A fair walk up 800ft from the car park, past Cwmorthin waterfall and through the valley of Cwmorthin, and you find the enigmatic ruins of Rhosydd - beautiful in their own way, but ultimately the debris of industrial decay and the plunder of...