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Welsh Slate
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Slates from quarries in Wales once went to roof the world. By the late nineteenth century as many as a third of all the roofing slates produced worldwide came from Wales, competing with quarries in France and the United States. This book traces the industry from its origins in the Roman period, its slow medieval development, to its massive expansion in the nineteenth century, as well as through its long drawn-out decline in the twentieth.
Fifteen informative chapters cover the quarrying techniques, transport infrastructure, the lives of the quarrymen and the lasting impact of the industry on the landscape of Wales. This book is superbly illustrated with full- colour images, aerial photographs and drawings from the National Monuments Record of Wales, along with historic images and maps.
*Cyhoeddwr: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales*

Ar un adeg byddai llechi o chwareli Cymru yn mynd i doi adeiladau’r byd. Erbyn diwedd y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg roedd cymaint ag un rhan o dair o’r holl lechi toi a gynhyrchid yn y byd yn dod o Gymru, gan gystadlu â chwareli yn Ffrainc a’r Unol Daleithiau. Mae’r llyfr hwn yn olrhain hanes y diwydiant o’i wreiddiau yng nghyfnod y Rhufeinwyr, drwy ei ddatblygiad araf yn yr Oesoedd Canol, hyd at yr ehangu aruthrol yn y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg, a’i ddirywiad graddol yn yr ugeinfed ganrif.
Ymdrinnir mewn pymtheg o benodau gwybodus am dechnegau chwarelydda, yr isadeiledd cludiant, bywydau’r chwarelwyr ac effaith barhaol y diwydiant ar dirwedd Cymru. Ceir yn y llyfr doreth o luniau gwych, gan gynnwys delweddau lliw llawn, awyrluniau a lluniadau o Gofnod Henebion Cenedlaethol Cymru, ynghyd â delweddau a mapiau hanesyddol.
*Cyhoeddwr: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales*

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