Barmouth

Dripping Well Trial

Entrance by track off Ffordd Gellfechan at SH613160.

A trial for copper for and lead on the same thick quartz vein as the previously mentioned trial in the church yard lower down the hill [Allen & Jackson 1985a: 16]. It is approximately 5 m long. (There are three other similar trials higher up the hill adjacent to the track from Barmouth to Cell Fechan farm. The trials may have been attempts to find the south-westerly ends of the Panorama mine lodes or have been connected with the Belle Vue gold mine, the location of which is given by Wilkinson [2003: 15044] as SH613161.)

The low wall in front of the entrance (the top of which is visible in the foreground) may have been used as a dam to provide a water supply.

Locally known as ‘The Wishing Well’ [Speak 2002] or ‘The Dripping Well’.

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