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Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Event ID 562576
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/562576
Remains associated with a short-lived ironstone mining operation can be identified on the south-east slopes of Cairn Vaich.
Several shafts can still be identified, along with several adits, that is, workings dug horizontally into the hillside. The largest of these is a trench 30m long and 9m wide, which reaches a depth of 4m at one end. A dump of ironstone lies at its eastern end.
There were two phases of ironstone mining in the area around the Lecht. The first took place in the early eighteenth century, the second in the mid- to late nineteenth century. These particular workings may represent test-workings of nineteenth-century date.
Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project
