Field Visit
Date 12 January 1995
Event ID 745044
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/745044
NS85NE 37.00 8765 5820.
NS85NE 37.01 8770 5810 Spoil Heap (CSW 6988)
NS85NE 37.02 8774 5763 Shaft (CSW 3385)
Mine (dis) [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1985.
This mine was opened (by the National Col Board) is 1948 and closed in 1953; it produced steam and household coal. There were two shafts; no. 1 being 59 fathoms deep and no. 2 (ventilation) 31.3 fathoms.
(NMRS MS/819).
The Kepplehill Colliery is depicted on the 2nd edition and 1921 revision of the OS 6-inch map (Lanarkshire, 1899, sheet xiii and 1921, sheet xiii.SW, respectively) as a complex of buildings, tanks and spoil heaps connected to the Shotts branch line by a mineral railway. The mine was disused by 1985 and its recorded location falls within an area of open-cast mining.
(CSW 3382)
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, IF) 12 January 1995.
MS/731/11
