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Cast iron column, 1800, mounted on plinth
Cast iron pillar used in the building of an extension to the Taibach (little houses) copper works, Port Talbot. The date 1800 has been cast into the column and 'N. ABBEY' indicates that it was made at the Neath Abbey ironworks operated at the time by the Quaker families, Fox and Price, of Cornish origin.
Collection Area
Industry
Item Number
2001.41
Measurements
Length
(mm): 880
Width
(mm): 1000
Height
(mm): 1590
diameter
(mm): 422
Height
(mm): 1371
Weight
(kg): 378.5
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