Archaeology Notes

Event ID 850208

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS51NW 9 5475 1766 and 5469 1770

Site recorded during a desk-based and field inspection by CFA within the accessible areas of a proposed opencast coal extraction site.

NS 547 176 Disused mine workings

A report will be deposited in the NMRS. The advice and assistance of the Regional Archaeologist for Strathclyde Region is gratefully acknowledged.

Sponsor: Natural Resource Consultancy, Ayr.

W L Finlayson and D Alexander 1995.

This colliery is depicted on the 1:10560 scale Ordnance Survey map (Provisional Edition, 1958).

Information from RCAHMS (MMD), 20 August 1998.

(Location cited as centred at NS 5469 1770). WHITEHILL colliery (3 and 4)

Location: Skares

Previous Owners: Bairds & Dalmellington Limited

Types of Coal: House Steam

Sinking/Production Commenced: 1946

Year Closed: 1965

Average Workforce: 109

Peak Workforce: 140

Peak Year: 1957

Shaft/Mine Details: 2 surface mines, main mine dipping 1 in 6, and return mine 1 in 3

Details in 1948: Output 100 tons per day, 25,000 per annum, longwall working. 55 employees. 1 bar screen, washing at Whitehill 1/2 (NS51NW 6.00). Canteen and baths also at Whitehill 1/2 . Electricity, 100% from public supply. Report dated 09-08-1948.

Other Details: Skares Brickworks (NS51NW 6.01) was built adjacent to the mine, and utilised blaes [volatile mudstone/shale] from its bing.

M K Oglethorpe 2006.