Field Visit
Date 15 July 1992
Event ID 747161
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/747161
NS86SW 63.01 8172 6077.
About 200m SSE of the site of Little Hareshaw steading, above the N bank of the Tillan Burn, there is a group of earthworks and spoil tips marking the site of a tile works. Grossart (1880) noted that 'there is an establishment at Little Hareshaw for the manufacture of water and sewage pipes, fire-bricks, chimney-cans, and other fire-clay goods, but it is not in operation at present', and the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map (Lanarkshire 1899, sheet xii) depicts a roofed building standing within a three-sided enclosure, to the W of a disused mine (NS86SW 63.00).
There is now no trace of the building, but the rectangular enclosure, open to the E, survives. It measures 14m from E to W by 8.2m transversely within a bank 4.9m thick and 1.6m high, which appears to be composed chiefly of cinders, slag and broken bricks. To the NW of the enclosure there are traces of a building, now marked only by robber-trenches, around which spoil has been piled, and there are further dumps to the S and E of the enclosure. There is a pond or tank to the NE of the enclosure, and another, of sub-rectangular shape, to the S of that, the latter being bounded on its E side by the incline associated with coal pit NS86SW 63.00.
The spoil tips at the W and S edges of the site overlie rig-and-furrow cultivation.
(CSW 4022)
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 15 July 1992
