Field Visit
Date 20 September 1991
Event ID 744351
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/744351
NT19SE 33 1544 9479
Opencast mining has removed Aitkin (or Aitken) Pit, and Kelty Station and Junction. The Aitkin Pit is first depicted on the OS 6-inch map in 1896, (Fifeshire, 1896, sheet xxxiv NE), and remained in use until 1963, the railway, closed in 1970, producing both house and steam coal. The mine had 2 shafts, one of 202 fathoms and the other, 95 fathoms deep. The mine was owned by the Fife Coal Company until nationalisation in 1947. (Cleish91 176)
Visited by RCAHMS (SPH) 20 September 1991.
