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Field Visit
Date 29 November 1994
Event ID 1148969
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1148969
NY16NW 44 centred 145 693
The Statistical Account refers to the 'excellent lime-stone quarry near Killhead'. Limestone was quarried here for at least 100 years, and the extent of the quarrying is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Dumfriesshire, 1861, sheet lxii), together with its bank of kilns; the base of the southernmost kiln and its draw arch still survive. Drainage was obviously a problem, and several large ponds are shown.
By 1900, when the 2nd edition of the map was published, quarrying operations had extended to the S, and the kilns remained in use. A wagon way connected the quarry to the Glasgow and South Western Railway, and stretches of this can be traced in woodland on the E boundary of the grounds of Kinmount House (NY16NW 19.00).
The quarry is now abandoned and waterfilled, but the spoil dumps and faces of the earlier workings can still be seen, along with later concrete machinery stances where the limestone was processed; the latter are not indicated on any edition of the map
Visited by RCAHMS (ARW, SPH), 29 November 1994.
OSA 1791-9.
Kelhead. Listed as quarries and kilns.
RCAHMS 1997.
