The copper miners of Parys Mountain kept 2 March as a holiday, the day in 1768 when the great body of ore was struck. The workings had nearly been given up when the agent set his men in small companies to sink shafts near a spring, and in less than two days they hit solid ore seven feet down. Pennant recorded that the day had been kept as a festival ever since.
The Parys miners’ festival of 2 March
2 March · Parys Mountain, Anglesey
No longer kept
The day that this discovery was made was March 2d 1768; which has ever since been observed as a festival by the miners.
From Pennant's Tours, A Tour in Wales, vol. 2, pp. 266-267. Read the original
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