Archaeology Notes

Event ID 757491

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC80SE 61 8951 0376

See also NC80SE 44 and NC80SE 62 and NC90SW 4.

Shaft (Disused) [NAT]

OS 6-inch map, 1964.

A late 18th or early 19th-century coal shaft. An embankment leading eastwards carried rails which connected eventually with the harbour, but the rails were removed and the embankment largely eroded away by the river.

Brora Coal Workings 1952.

A coal pit, now disused, which was worked by a shaft about 1844, but the coal obtained being of inferior quality it was not paying working expenses and was discontinued the following year.

Name Book, Sutherland 1872.