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A hammer head, ‘gordd wal’, used for splitting slate.

In the Dyffryn Nantlle area quarryman generally preferred to use a ‘gordd wal’ made from wood. It is therefore unusual to find an iron ‘gordd wal’ in Dyffryn Nantlle. Quarrymen in the Blaenau Ffestiniog area preferred to use a ‘gordd wal’ made from iron.