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This giant cavern was created by Bronze Age miners extracting huge quantities of copper ore from Great Orme (🏴) over 3,500 years ago!
This giant cavern was created by Bronze Age miners extracting huge quantities of copper ore from Great Orme (🏴) over 3,500 years ago!
For 200 years, Bronze Age miners extracted a copper bonanza from the Great Orme Mines. It supplied large parts of Britain, and metal from the mine even found its way as far as Germany and Sweden.
📷: Where the metal went
📷: Where the metal went
After this copper boom, the mine was abandoned for millennia until it was rediscovered in 1987.
📷: The mine today
📷: The mine today
