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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 676250
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/676250
NN33SW 2 centred 317 302
See also NN22NE 1, NN32NW 1 and NN33SW 9.
(Area centred: NN 317 302) Eight shaft symbols and three roofless buildings shown and described as Lead Mines (NAT). Mineral railway shown from Tyndrum Station (Old Lead Mines on OS 6" 1901).
OS 6" map (1867)
The lead mines at Sron nan Colan were begun in 1741 and together with the mines at Eas Anie (see NN22NE 1) were exploited until 1923. (Full details of ownership and ore-production given).
V A Firsoff 1954
The early mining is represented by foundation remains of two buildings, drystone walling, maximum height 2m, and a long cleft, originally natural, but adapted for working with levels and shafts. About 700m to the NE are extensive remains of the 20th Century workings and track of the old railway.
Visited by OS (FRH) 3 May 1962.
Lead Mine (dis) [NAT]
Shaft (dis) [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1971.
The monument comprises the remains of lead mines and associated activities, located on a NE-facing hillslope to the S of the Crianlarich-Oban railway.
The physical remains survive of lead ore working by open-cast mining, stoping, and deep mining, an inclined railway and a level tramway leading to a crushing plant, and a later ore treatment plant.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated August 1993.
