Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Great Mountain Colliery, photograph

Harry, Williams (Photographer)

Photograph captioned 'No. 1 Slant, Great Mountain Colliery, Tumble, Carmarthenshire. Coal has been mined in different ways, from pits entered by vertical shafts, from horizontal levels and as suggested in this photograph from a slant or drift mine. The view is outwards from a short way inside the entrance of the slant. The slope of the ground inwards is seen in the narrow gauge rails and the steel rope which runs between them.' Mounted on card. Made for the exhibition RECORDING WALES 3 in 1970/1971.

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

87.32I/15

Historical Associations

Association Type: Colliery
Place: Great Mountain Colliery (Carms)

Creation/Production

Newport College of Art
Role: Photographer
Place: Newport College of Art
Period: 1970-1971

Acquisition

collected officially by NMW staff, 1987

Measurements

mount (mm): 526
mount (mm): 450

Techniques

Black and white (monochrome photograph)
Photograph

Material

Paper
Card

Categories

Coal Dyfed 1970s
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