I have received an enquiry about a mine shaft and I know nothing of it - can anyone shed any light on it ?

Here is the message and some piccies I was sent;

hi ian ive watched many of your youtube videos i found this shaft on the southern part of ruabon mountain think it was part of pool park wonderd if you had ever investigated anthing cant seem to find much info on the internet or on you tube many thanks mark

this is a new one on me Ian it does not look like any one of the lids near the road and it is not a gcc one
or it would have had ladders down it. best bet would be someone from north wales caving club.
mick

Ask for a grid ref

haha - he'd sent me a similar facebook message with same photos. i've just cut and pasted the same elsewhere on the forum! I've just been talking to Cris Ebbs and have sent the photos to him to see if he knows anything. If anyone does, he will!

Ant89 wrote:
That's the first thing I did

More info provided;

from bottom left 3rd full square one abouve that with 492 ref thats the shaft i believe it to be as their is another shaft higher up closer to the road which has sunk a bit and has a timber frame exposed and i am sure this shaft is close the wxm denbighshire boundry line i also found the other disussed shaft close to the cae llwyd reservoir this is capped with concrete hope this helps many thanks mark

high Ian the shaft is on the gefinegist vien about 150 ft to small workings not big and the other by the res ovoir goes onto the gormorian level which is blocked further up.

mick

Awesome, thanks Mick

as here:

ucet.org.uk/index.php/forum/10-general-c...e/9078-enquiry#24347

from cris ebbs:
The shaft in the three photos is Marthas Shaft on Cefn-y-Gist vein. I can’t remember the depth, but it’s possibly 150ft or so..... but the ginging isn’t good. Not much down there to see though. There’s an adit driven towards the shaft under the road, although I don’t think it ever actually connected with the main workings, which were very limited in extent. The portal is north-west of the road and has run in, but access is via a small hole down, right next to the road on the south-east side by a very small ‘lay-by’. The adit is blocked after 50 or 100 yards, and draughts (but only from an intermediate surface shaft.)

p.s. I sent that to the guy on facebook.

(thanks murph - only just seen you reply - you're bang on the money too!)