Wales’ Most Dramatic Landmark Sculpture

Posted on September 21st, 2008 filed in Caerphilly, Photos, S & M, Valleys

Easily Wales’ most DRAMatic sculpture is Andy Hazell’s Wheel of Drams near the Hengoed Viaduct, Maesycwmmer, a village near Caerphilly.

Andy Hazell was commissioned to create a landmark sculpture to celebrate the refurbishment of the Hengoed Viaduct and its inclusion into the National Cycle Network. Wheel of Drams is a dramatic eight metre high circular sculpture of six curved steel coal drams that commemorate the original haulage companies that operated on the goods line that passed over the viaduct. The circular shape also represents the move from the route being used by coal drams to bicycles.

Although this is an eye-catching landmark sculpture it is slowly being obscured by trees growing  in front of it.

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