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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 1116043
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1116043
Scheduled as Lochend Pit No 5 and bing.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 19 November 2003.
(Location cited as NS 8487 6945). LOCHEND 5 Colliery
Location: Caldercruix
Previous Owners: Brownieside Coal Company Limited
Types of Coal: Anthracite
Sinking/Production Commenced: c.1880
Year Closed: 1948
Year Abandoned: 1948
Average Workforce: 89
Peak Workforce: 101
Peak Year: 1948
Shaft/Mine Details: No. 5 shaft 70m (to Coxrod or Lower Drumgray). Air Pit 46m to Upper Drumgray.
Details in 1948: 19,250 tons per annum. 101 employees. Screening facilities: bar screen only [mechanical device for separating different sizes of coal using parallel inclined bars spaced at regular intervals, the coal sliding down the incline under gravity], dross [small particles of coal resulting from the mining process] is hand-fed into the washer. Bash-type washer [coal preparation to separate coal from dirt whereby water is forced through coal using a plunger, perforated plate and tank] made partly by Dickson and Mann. Method of working longwall, hand-filled into tubs, with aid of coal-cutting machinery. No conveying machinery. Canteen, but no baths. All electricity AC, and supplied from outside by Clyde Valley Power Company Estimated future life of colliery only 3 years. Report dated 28-08-1948.
Other Details: Notable for its extraordinary bing, known locally as 'the Mexican's Hat'.
M K Oglethorpe 2006.
