<html><div style='background-color:'><DIV class=RTE>>Eleanor Murphy who works in the crescent said: "They said it might possibly </DIV>
<DIV></DIV>>be Iron Age bell pits.
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<DIV>By bell pits, I think they mean an early type of mining where a shaft was sunk and a cavern hollowed out on either side of the shaft below ground level. See <A href="http://www.pontypoolglynpits.co.uk/bell_pits.htm">http://www.pontypoolglynpits.co.uk/bell_pits.htm</A> for further information.</DIV>
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