Great Orme Mines - http://www.greatorme.freeserve.co.uk/ Official website of the bronze age underground copper mines with pictures and information on the archaeology and geology. Visitor centre and shop opening times and tour prices. Facilities are available for school parties.
Assessment of Recent Field Work on the Great Orme - http://www.assemblage.group.shef.ac.uk/4/4wager.html Co-ordinated research of the extensive copper mineralisation on the Great Orme, exploited in prehistory and later. Observations on field work at Llety'r Filiast, Pen y Dinas, Mynydd Isaf, Badger's Cave, Pen Trwyn and Ffynnon Rufeinig.
School Visit to the Copper Mines - http://www.deganwy.conwy.sch.uk/Pages/copper_mines.htm A report written by local primary school children on their class visit to the mines.
Conwy County Borough Council Countryside Services: Great Orme - http://www.conwy.gov.uk/section.asp?cat=1495 The official council website includes an introduction to the Orme, its wildlife and its attractions; the management plan for the country park; details of conservation events, and information for schools.
Great Orme Copper Mine - Tourist Photos - http://www.galenfrysinger.com/wales_copper_mine.htm Photographs comprehensively illustrating the tourist view of the Bronze Age copper mine.
Modern Antiquarian - Great Orme Mine - http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/2157 Photographs of the Bronze Age Copper Mines and of two other antiquities, the 'stone rows' and Llety'r Filiast (Cromlech burial chamber).
Great Orme Copper Mines - http://www.mimno.org/england/orme/greatorme.html Visitor's photographs taken in November 2001.
Old Mine, Great Orme Copper Mine - http://www.mindat.org/loc-4814.html Describing the Old Mine, the largest of the three Gt Orme copper mines, which accesses very important Bronze Age workings for copper (malachite and azurite) exploiting horizontal galleries.
Pentrwyn Bronze Age Metalworking Site, Great Orme - http://www.ancient-arts.org/Pentrwyn%20Bronze%20Age%20Metalworking%20Site.htm Archaeological report on the earliest known metalworking site in the United Kingdom.
Llandudno Bardic Stone Circle and Archaeology - http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/celynog/llandudno.htm A modern circle built for the Eisteddfod of 1963. Illustrated together with a neolithic standing stone, the Cromlech ancient burial chamber, the Bronze Age copper mine and the ancient stone rows.
Great Orme in Llandudno North Wales - http://www.llandudno.com/orme.html Describing the Orme and its history, archaeology, ecology, mining, shipwreck, flora and fauna including the long established herd of feral goats.
Great Orme Exploration Society - http://llandudno.org/explore.html Provides membership and contact information, also a profile of the society formed in 1985 to organise exploration and interpretation of the ancient copper mines.
Summit Complex - http://www.thesummitcomplex.co.uk/ Restaurant, cafeteria, bar and entertainment centre at the summit of the Great Orme near the Tram and Cable Car termini.
Wild Flower Society - Great Orme Visit - http://www.thewildflowersociety.com/wfs_report_menus/wfs_great_orme_2006/great_orme_2006_pages/great_orme_2006_page_1.htm Four pages of Wild Flowers photographed on the Great Orme in April.
Great Orme Copper Mines - http://www.data-wales.co.uk/orme.htm Includes a historical sketch of what may possibly have been the world's largest Bronze Age copper mining complex.
Wales Underground - Great Orme Copper Mines - http://www.wales-underground.org.uk/orme/geology.shtml Describing the history, archaeology and geology of the 3,500 year old Bronze Age Copper Mines, now open to the public.
Great Orme Exploration Society - Official Site - http://www.goes.org.uk/ The exploits of the "diggers" of the Great Orme Exploration Society Ltd past and present. Highlighting the Society's activities, discoveries and achievements.
St Tudno's Church Great Orme Llandudno - http://www.llandudno-parish.org.uk/sttudno.html The ancient church of St Tudno is a place of pilgrimage, peace and prayer.
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