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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 791626
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/791626
NT29NW 10 Centred on 23664 95402
Possibly of recent origin
Sites recorded as part of a desk-based assessment and field inspection conducted in connection with an environmental assessment for proposed works on power lines between Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy.
Full details of the methods and results of this exercise are in a report, a copy of which will be deposited in the NMRS.
Cluny Square:
NT 2351 9509 Coal pit.
Rough Park:
NT 235 953 Coal pit.
NT 239 954 Coal pits.
Coalden:
NT 240 950 Coal pits.
Sponsor: Gillespies on behalf of Scottish Power plc.
A J Dunwell and B Finlayson 1997
Eight coal pits are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Fife and Kinross 1856, sheet 31) in association with a refuse heap and three roofed structures which are annotated as engine houses. They are not shown on the current chart copy of the OS 1: 10000 map (1990).
Information from RCAHMS (KC) 25 January 1999.
Cropmarks recorded oblique aerial photographs (RCAHMSAP 1998) correspond to some of the cowl pits depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Fife and Kinross 1856, Sheet 31).
Information from RCAHMS (DCC) 5 February 2004.
