Archaeology Notes

Event ID 853558

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/853558

NS40NE 23 459 096

Part of Corbie Craigs group; see also NS40NE 20.

For Dalmellington, Waterside Ironworks (NS 442 083) and related monuments, see NS40NW 15.00.

For adjacent Benquhat village, see NS40NE 105.

See also NS40NW 43 and NS40NW 59 -61, NS40NE 104-6, 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.