Bronze Age Gold from Wales

Penydarren ironworks, photograph

Black and white contact print made from a glass negative (whereabouts unknown) showing the Penydarren Iron Works from the north east in summer 1876. The blast furnaces on the left had been disused for over a decade but the iron forges and rolling mills in the distance had been restarted in 1869 and the blowing engines on the right had been refurbished in the early 1870s in the hope of relighting the furnaces. However the blast furnaces were never relit and the works closed in 1875.

Collection Area

Industry

Item Number

2010.60

Creation/Production

Crawshay, Robert Thompson
Date: 1876

Acquisition

Old stock, 21/7/2010

Measurements

Length (mm): 253
Width (mm): 304

Techniques

black and white (monochrome photograph)
photograph

Material

paper

Location

In store
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