Archaeological Evaluation

Date 10 March 2008 - 28 March 2008

Event ID 577291

Category Recording

Type Archaeological Evaluation

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/577291

NT 1515 8713 An evaluation consisting of 65 trial trenches, amounting to 5864m2 (ca 5% of the site), was undertaken from 10–28 March 2008. The trenching targeted a number of locations where former mining settlements and other buildings were recorded on historic maps. A series of shallow undated linear ditched features was identified, together with six mine shafts and a badly truncated sandstone wall of probably modern date. No sub-surface remains of the mining settlement of Coalton were discovered.

Archive: RCAHMS (intended). Report: Fife SMR and RCAHMS (intended)

Funder: ATH Resources PLC

Philip Richardson (CFA Archaeology Ltd), 2008

Information also reported in Oasis (cfaarcha1-42217) 26 March 2013