Archaeology Notes

Event ID 708205

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS97NE 83 964 789

For adjacent Birkhill Station (on the Bo'ness and Kinneil Rly), see NS97NE 159.00.

Preserved 1990; approached from Bo'ness and Kinneil Railway. Buildings at NS 9630 7901 and 9649 7895; tramway between.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM) 17 July 1990.

Extensive pillar and stall workings on the bank of the river Avon, abandoned 1981. There are three mines: mine no.1 is on the E bank of the river with two entrances. mine no.2 lies on thre top pf the river bank amongst the clay processing buildings and mine no.3 lies on the W bank of the river.

Grampian Speleological Group (2008)