The Aberthaw limekilns were built in 1888 to burn blue lias limestone pebbles collected from the foreshore. There are two pots each with a diameter of 18ft and a capacity of 300 tons. The daily combined output was 40 tons of burned lime. The kilns were abandoned in 1926.
For further details of the history of these kilns see:
'The Aberthaw Pebble Limekilns' by Malcolm Brown, published in Archive, No. 46, June 2005
