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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 753201
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/753201
NS51SW 16 5413 1251.
Desk-bound survey was commissioned by the landowners of a proposed opencast site. Field survey was undertaken in the part of this area deemed archaeologically sensitive by Strathclyde Regional Council. Among the monuments recorded was a drift shaft and spoil tips for the extraction of graphite; referred to as 'Waud Mine Blacklead' on the first edition 6" OS coverage. The shaft was capped in 1969.
Sponsor: British Coal Opencast.
CFA 1994n.
(NS 541 125) A capped mine head was recorded in October 2003 prior to development of the site. A standing building survey and topographic field survey were undertaken.
Report lodged with WoSAS SMR and the NMRS.
Sponsor: Scottish Coal.
K Seretis and J D Arthur 2003
(Location cited as NS 541125) Craigman Graphite Mine: Of very fine quality, Craigman graphite mostly appears to have been sent to English markets. The mine worked for around a century. A John Smith reported as having fround some diamonds (microscopic) in 1894. Smith (in 1895) said that the mine had been abandoned some 50 years earlier.
Grampian Speleological Group 2008.
