Field Visit
Date 24 April 1997
Event ID 786645
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/786645
NS89NE 102 8536 9781
This calcite mine (Dickie and Forster 1974) consists of at least three discrete workings, with a fourth to the ESE, which was not examined on the date of visit. The three workings to the W are linked by a graded pony track which zigzags up the face of the escarpment. At the top of the track an open adit (MENS97 29, NS 8536 9781), about 8m in depth and up to 5.5m across, has been driven into the front of a terrace and can be traced for at least 25m into the hillside. Disturbed ground and a possible collapse hollow suggest that the workings may have extended at least a further 30m to the N. A small amount of spoil lies to the S and W of the entrance to the workings.
The other two workings lie to the SSE and comprise an oval quarry with a large spoil heap (MENS97 31, NS 8544 9764) and a second open adit extending into the hillside with spoil beside the entrance (MENS97 32, NS 8547 9762). At the base of the spoil beside the W of the two lower mines, there are the footings of a subrectangular hut (MENS97 162, NS 8541 9760), which measures 3.7m from NW to SE by 2.2m transversely within a stony bank spread to 0.6m in thickness and 0.2m in height.
On the grassy hillside between the mines there are fragments of banks and terraces forming at least two plots of cultivated ground, while the others do not form a coherent pattern.
(MENS97 29, 31, 32, 162)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 24 April 1997
(DM Dickie and C Forster 1974)
