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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 728506
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/728506
NX85SE 9 8687 5280
(NX c. 87 53). A copper mine was opened on the rocky shore of Colvend in 1770, the ore being taken to a smelting furnace, but the work was stopped for lack of profit.
W R McDiarmid 1895
There is no local knowledge of the mine and it could not be located.
Visited by OS (RD) 15 August 1969.
(Location: NX 8687 5280). A 'copper pit' is annotated and depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Kirkcudbrightshire 1854, sheet 52) and may be the mine referred to by McDiarmid (1895). It is not shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1982).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK), 20 June 2000.
