Pigs & Ingots, The Lead / Silver Mines of Cardiganshire

A photographic survey of the environment after the cessation of lead and silver mining in mid Wales that began

in the Bronze Age and continued until the beginning of the 20th Century.

These large format photographs, in both black & white and colour, form a documentary record of this historic landscape.

A book 'Pigs & Ingots, The Lead/Silver mines of Cardiganshire'

Published by Y Llolfa 1993, 105 pages, 31 photographs, and many illustrations depicting social conditions and

mining and metallurgical techniques, can be purchased for £9.95 plus £2.00 p&p. email your order via the contact page.

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