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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 732071
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/732071
NY16NW 44 centred 145 694
This working in a Lower Carboniferous limestone is now abandoned and completely waterlogged. The main worked seam has a thickness of 25 ft. and dips gently E at a low angle under a moderate overburden. Only the top of the seam is now visible above water. When in operation the section was: (at top) bands of reddish nodular limestone, 4ft.; reddish shale, 12ft.; massive limestone, 25 ft. The quality of the limestone was said to be excellent.
Re-opening the quarry would be a difficult and expensive operation because of the great amount of water in it. The outcrop of the limestone should continue just west of Kelhead farm and then strike NE towards Winterseugh. A nodular limestone, believed to be the top seam of Kelhead, crops out in the brook 250 yds. WNW of Winterseugh.
T Robertson, JB Simpson and JGC Anderson 1949.
