Field Visit

Date 2013

Event ID 994023

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/994023

NM 8006 6560 and NM 8048 6585 The mine worked a lead vein which outcrops at the surface here. Mining remains comprise shallow trench workings and a series of opencast excavations. A mine level driven from the N bank of the Allt Tarsuin (NM 80120 65859) drains the W opencasts. The opencast workings are associated with hand-dressing floors for ore crushing and relate to the first phase of operation between 1722 and 1815. Two rectangular stone buildings at NM 80028 65914, probably workshops and offices, probably date to the same period. but may have continued in use until the mine closed in the 1870s.

Report: FCS, Highland HER and RCAHMS

Funder: Forestry Commission Scotland

John Pickin, 2013

(Source: DES)