The 'Lost Viaduct'
Blaenafon, South Wales
4 February 2001
VR Gallery

If you don't already have it installed on your computer, you will need a simple free QuickTime download from www.apple.com/quicktime to run these VRs. The minimum version required is 3, although 5 is better. Once installed, clicking on any of the links below should start the VR after a short downloading delay. Each VR provides a 360-degree panoramic view of different aspects of the excavation, enabling you to zoom in or out and explore the site from different angles.

Panoramic VR 1:

Industrial archaeology on an industrial scale. The 'big hole' at Blaenafon, also known as Trench 4, incorporating Trenches 1 and 3. Excavating this 30 x 30-metre hole, which went down almost 15 metres at its deepest point, involved shifting 10,000 tons of earth and rubbish.

Panoramic VR 2:

Looking down on the surviving blast furnace and other structures of the Blaenafon iron works.

Panoramic VR 3:

Outside the main Blaenafon iron works buildings. Old tramway tracks can be seen crossing the area.

Panoramic VR 4:

Inside the Blaenafon iron works.

Panoramic VR 5:

Time Team reconstructed the way in which iron ore, coal and limestone were smelted to produce iron here by casting a copy of the original tramway carriage wheels.

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