Archaeology Notes

Event ID 842179

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/842179

NS40NE 106 4665 0916 to 4485 0998

See also NS40NE 20.

Extends onto map sheet NS40NW.

See also NS40NW 43 and NS40NW 59 -61, NS40NE 23 and NS40NE 104 -5, and NS41SW 61-2.

Scheduled as part of Waterside, miners' villages and mineral railways. This monument comprises the remains of the former mining villages of Benquhat, Corbie Craigs and Lethanhill, together with a network of tracks marking the site of former mineral railways and bings marking the sites of former ironstone pits and adjacent shaft, all associated with the Dalmellington Ironworks [Dalmellington, Waterside Ironworks: NS40NW 15.00].

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 15 November 1999.