Overview
Beynon's Pit is recorded as Coal Mine at Wales Blaenau Gwent. It preserves evidence of a work place where people cut or brought useful material out of the ground. The saved period is Post Medieval. The source record also describes the surviving evidence; its details are kept below.
Who lived here and when
The record identifies Beynon's Pit as Coal Mine. It assigns the place to Post Medieval, but does not safely name every person, family or worker who used it, or fix all phases to exact years.
Homes and daily life
The recorded type points to a work place where people cut or brought useful material out of the ground. That explains the likely everyday purpose without claiming people, tools or customs that the exact record does not prove.
What was found
The saved source says: The National Monuments Record of Wales records Beynon's Pit as Coal Mine from the Post Medieval period. The saved point comes from the official national record. Inclusion does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Why it ended
The saved record does not establish one certain ending. A change in farming, water level, trade, fuel, ownership, route or settlement pattern may have ended the use, but no single cause is claimed without evidence.
Why it mattered
Beynon's Pit fixes a real piece of work or daily life to an exact place. Even where names are lost, its remains show how people obtained food and materials, organised land, made homes or adapted to the local ground.
History checked 15 August 2026 against the named sources below.
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