What is recorded here

Elia Contact Mine (N) cuts through Modern rocks near Usk Castle, marking human hunger for what sleeps beneath Monmouthshire soil. The shaft may have breathed dust, echoed hammers, or swallowed light before people stopped listening. Its exact purpose has faded, but the hole remains a wound in the earth, waiting for someone brave or foolish enough to ask what it took.

The National Monuments Record of Wales records Elia Contact Mine (N), Usk Castle as Mine from the Modern period. The saved point comes from the official national record. Inclusion does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

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