SCHEDULED ANCIENT MONUMENTS in TORFAEN (May 2008)

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SCHEDULED ANCIENT MONUMENTS IN TORFAEN (May 2008) CADW NATIONAL CADW TYPE OF CLASS OF REF SCHEDULED ANCIENT MONUMENT PERIOD GRID REF COMMUNITY MONUMENT MONUMENT NO Post-Med/ GM597 Abersychan Railway SO 274 042 Abersychan Railway Transport Modern Post-Med/ MM163 Cwmbyrgwm Colliery SO 252 033 Abersychan Coal Mine Industrial Modern Post-Med/ MM221 Air Furnace at British Ironworks SO 257 036 Abersychan Ironworks Industrial Modern Post-Med/ MM216 British Colliery Pumping Engine House SO 258 036 Abersychan Engine House Industrial Modern Industrial Post-Med/ MM200 Blaenavon Ironworks SO 249 092 Blaenavon Monument Industrial Modern Religious/ Ritual/ MM209 Carn-y-Defaid Round Cairns SO 270 100 Blaenavon Round Cairn Funerary Prehistoric Religious/ Ritual/ MM212 Capel Newydd, Blaenavon (site of) SO 270 077 Blaenavon Chapel Funerary Medieval Post-Med/ MM220 Aaron Brute's Level and Iron Bridge SO 248 088 Blaenavon Level Industrial Modern Industrial Post-Med/ MM222 Brake Engine on Hill Pits Tramroad Incline SO 242 098 Blaenavon Monument Industrial Modern Pwll Du Tramroad Tunnel Southern Industrial Post-Med/ MM223 Approach SO 248 096 Blaenavon Monument Transport Modern Pwll Du Tramroad Tunnel Northern Industrial Post-Med/ MM224 Approach SO 245 116 Blaenavon Monument Transport Modern Industrial Post-Med/ MM227 Iron and coal patching at Pen-fford-goch SO 257 104 Blaenavon Monument Industrial Modern Post-Med/ MM277 Engine Pits SO 244 089 Blaenavon Coal Mine Industrial Modern Post-Med/ MM279 Coity Sandstone Quarry and Incline SO 232 082 Blaenavon Quarry Industrial Modern Post-Med/ MM280 Dyne Steel Incline SO 241 110 Blaenavon Incline Transport Modern Post-Med/ MM293 Old Coal Pits SO 243 095 Blaenavon Air Shaft Industrial Modern Post-Med/ MM295 Ironstone Quarries at Carreg Maen Taro SO 238 112 Blaenavon Quarry Industrial Modern MM296 Blaenavon Upper Brick Yard SO 251 096 Blaenavon Quarry Industrial Post-Med/ Modern Coal and Iron Ore Workings West of Post-Med/ MM297 Abergavenny Rd. SO 253 103 Blaenavon Iron Mine Industrial Modern Religious/ Ritual/ MM271 Llanderfel Church ST 263 953 Fairwater Church Funerary Medieval Religious/ Ritual/ MM045 Cairns West of Craig y Dyffryn ST 251 927 Henllys Round Cairn Funerary Prehistoric Religious/ Ritual/ MM309 St Peter's Churchyard Cross, Henllys ST 267 910 Henllys Cross Funerary Medieval Religious/ Ritual/ MM136 Churchyard Cross ST 306 931 Llantarnam Cross Funerary Medieval Agriculture & MM137 Llantarnam Abbey Tithe Barn ST 312 930 Llantarnam Tithe Barn Subsistence Medieval Old Beam Pump & Winding Engine, Glyn Post-Med/ MM192 Pits ST 265 998 Pontymoile Industrial Building Industrial Modern Industrial Post-Med/ MM256 Iron Ore Scours at Upper Race, Pontypool ST 276 986 Pontymoile Monument Industrial Modern .

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