Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales

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  • Date joined 24/07/09
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Website www.rcahmw.gov.uk

The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW) holds the national public archive of architectural and archaeological records for Wales. We have an ongoing programme to digitise records held in our archive.

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The RCAHMW's online database Coflein provides free access to online images, catalogue records and detailed descriptions of 1000's of buildings, monuments and archaeological sites across Wales. We are based in Aberystwyth and have a Search Room and Library with a free car park next to the building.  Tel: 01970  621200

                            

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RCAHMW has created these Collections

  • Moel Tryfan slate quarry

  • Moel Tryfan slate quarry

  • By RCAHMW
  • Author rating: Authoritative 5/5
  • Added 02/11/2010
  • Moel Tryfan slate quarry, opened in 1800, was worked with Alexandra quarry to the northeast from 1918. The quarry was still working by 1972.
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  • Items 6
  • Then & Now: Dunraven Castle

  • Then & Now: Dunraven Castle

  • By RCAHMW
  • Author rating: Authoritative 5/5
  • Added 07/03/2011
  • Dunraven Castle was a castellated mansion, built from around 1800 onwards on the site of an Iron Age hillfort. It was demolished in 1962.
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  • Items 2
  • The Cob, Porthmadog

  • The Cob, Porthmadog

  • By RCAHMW
  • Author rating: Authoritative 5/5
  • Added 26/05/2011
  • The Cob, Porthmadog is a 1.4km long causeway crossing Traeth Mawr; the original embankment was conceived by William Maddocks and constructed between 1808 and 18...
  • Members 0
  • Items 5

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RCAHMW has created these Groups

  • Woolen Mills

  • Woolen Mills

  • By harvyd
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  • harvyd
  • Added 18/08/2009
  • The history of the woolen industry in Wales
  • Rivers to the Sea, Harbour to the World

  • Rivers to the Sea, Harbour to the World

  • By richard
  • Author rating: User 1/5
  • richard
  • Added 26/01/2010
  • We are a group of local volunteers interpreting the present and past, and promoting the history and cultural development in and around Aberystwyth harbour.
  • Grwp Dysgu am Gatrefi

  • Grwp Dysgu am Gatrefi

  • By rheinalltj
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  • rheinalltj
  • Added 15/02/2010
  • Grwp i helpu gwaith addysg Casgliad y Bobl
  • Oral history

  • Oral history

  • By bethtomos
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  • bethtomos
  • Added 15/04/2010
  • A group to highlight and discuss oral history projects in Wales
  • Welsh Mills Society

  • Welsh Mills Society

  • By RCAHMW
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  • RCAHMW
  • Added 17/03/2010
  • A group for members and friends of the Welsh Mills Society to share information
  • Milk churn stands

  • Milk churn stands

  • By RCAHMW
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  • RCAHMW
  • Added 22/03/2010
  • Milk stands, relics of the time of milk churns, survive intact on country roadsides, increasingly unnoticed and overgrown. Please add your own photos etc.

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