NEATH ABBEY

Sometimes sites present difficult problems often associated with water. In a watching brief near Neath Abbey for Montgomery Watson, in very wet and often dangerous conditions, part of former railway bank was found and a picture built up of the changes in coal transportation in the 19th century. An earlier wall, possibly associated with the medieval abbey, was found under the bank.

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Section drawings of the sequence of stratified layers on the site.

Plan of the Neath Abbey area in 1878 showing railways and industrial features next to the remains of the medieval abbey.

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