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Welsh land art
UK industrial boom in XIX-XX centuries was directly related to the increase in coal production. Not the least role in this played participation of horses, draft trolley. They were called the pit pony, and they rose to the surface only on holidays.
The life expectancy of a "silo" horse and not exceed three years. Then, on the surface of a horse could live peacefully and twenty years. Horses under the ground significantly reduced the amount of human labor underground. Naturally, they have reduced significantly their appearance and mortality among miners. In memory of this "mine" horse, as the collective image, near Caerphilly, that South Wales, United Kingdom, there was a giant figure of a horse, a length of almost 200 meters. The work was called "Sultan" and to create it used about 60 thousand tons of coal shale.
The life expectancy of a "silo" horse and not exceed three years. Then, on the surface of a horse could live peacefully and twenty years. Horses under the ground significantly reduced the amount of human labor underground. Naturally, they have reduced significantly their appearance and mortality among miners. In memory of this "mine" horse, as the collective image, near Caerphilly, that South Wales, United Kingdom, there was a giant figure of a horse, a length of almost 200 meters. The work was called "Sultan" and to create it used about 60 thousand tons of coal shale.
