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Howe Mire

Colliery(S) (Industrial), Cropmark(S) (Period Unknown), Field Boundary (Period Unknown)

Site Name Howe Mire

Classification Colliery(S) (Industrial), Cropmark(S) (Period Unknown), Field Boundary (Period Unknown)

Alternative Name(s) Sweethope House

Canmore ID 53707

Site Number NT37SE 62

NGR NT 35700 71300

NGR Description Centred on NT 35700 71300

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council East Lothian
  • Parish Inveresk (East Lothian)
  • Former Region Lothian
  • Former District East Lothian
  • Former County Midlothian

Archaeology Notes

NT37SE 62 centred on NT 35700 71300

NT 357 713. Coal Sinks and Cropmarks, Howe Mire: visible on aerial photographs.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

An old field boundary to the NE of Sweethope House has been recorded by aerial photography (RCAHMSAP 1994) and is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Edinburghshire, 1854, sheet 7).

Information from RCAHMS (GJW) 17 December 1997.

Two broad lines of coal pits have been recorded as cropmarks alongside further indeterminate cropmarks on oblique aerial photography (RCAHMSAP 1979, 1981, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000) lying on the gently sloping ground of Howe Mire. The field boundary lies towards the S.

Information from RCAHMS (KMM) 16 August 2004

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