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Field Visit
Date 18 September 1991
Event ID 743493
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/743493
NT19SE 41 centred 192 942
Nothing is now visible of a brickworks, clay pits, brick fields and kilns depicted on the 1st edition of the 6-inch map (Fife & Kinross, 1856, sheet 31), in an area which has now reverted to pasture.
At the N end of the field (NT 1922 9450, Cleish91 193) a spoil tip marks the site of a coal pit and engine house, which are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (ibid) The surface of the tip is scarred with coal picking pits. Nothing is visible of the tramroad that connected the pit to Lochgelly Ironworks.
(Cleish 91 192-7)
Visited by RCAHMS (SPH) 18 September 1991.
