Archaeology Notes

Event ID 872744

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/872744

NG53NE 8 5649 3652

See also NG53NE 9, NG53NE 13, NG53NE 14, NG53NE 16 and NG53SE 3 and NG53SE 7.

For (associated) workers' housing (centred NG 55556 35716), see NG53NE 10.

For (associated) Inverarish Cottages (foremen's housing and manager's house: centred NG 55635 35960), see NG53NE 12.

Developed 1913 on by William Baird & Co Ltd. The main working was a drift mine running through a hill, linked to the pier at Suisnish by a railway. There are ruins of concrete surface buildings, (NG 53NE14) and the track of the railway (NG53NE 9) can still be seen. The incline to another drift can also be traced.

J R Hume 1977.

Scheduled (with NG53NE 9, NG53NE 13, NG53NE 14, NG53NE 16 and NG53SE 3 and NG53SE 7 ) as 'inverarish, iron ore mine, kilns and associated remains... the remains of an ironstone mine and processing complex established by William Baird and Co of Coatbridge and in operation during the First World War.'

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 31 March 2011.