Archaeology Notes

Event ID 671152

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NJ91NW 4 c. 940 176

'There is a gold mine, very rich, in a husband toun, called Overhill, in the parish of Belhelvie ... three fathoms, beneath the kyln, that is at the head of the In-town'. This mine is recorded in the reign of James V and again in 1683.

R W Cochran-Patrick 1878.

No trace of this gold mine was found on the date of visit.

Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, IF), 4 March 1996.