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Cults Hill Limestone Quarry
Building(S) (Period Unassigned), Clamp Kiln(S) (Period Unassigned), Limestone Quarry (Period Unassigned), Magazine (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Site Name Cults Hill Limestone Quarry
Classification Building(S) (Period Unassigned), Clamp Kiln(S) (Period Unassigned), Limestone Quarry (Period Unassigned), Magazine (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Bunzion Lime Works
Canmore ID 125080
Site Number NO30NW 113.06
NGR NO 3407 0850
NGR Description Centred NO 3407 0850
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/125080
- Council Fife
- Parish Cults
- Former Region Fife
- Former District North East Fife
- Former County Fife
Field Visit (November 1996 - May 1997)
NO30NW 113.06 Centred 3407 0850
In the area to the W of the West Works miners' rows and the boundary with the Pitlessie workings there are numerous clamp-kilns, limestone quarry, machinery plinths, a limestone mine, a magazine, and the remains of Claybriggs farm cottages. The clamp-kilns, which are up to 2m in depth, occur singly and in banks of up to four, with several opening directly on to the public road. Vitrified material is visible adhering to the sides of some of the kilns.
About 100m to the SE of the largest group of kilns and set in a quarry face, the current OS 1:2500 map (1965) depicts a limestone mine. No trace of it was visible on the date of visit, but it is depicted with a track leading to it on the 1st edition of the OS 25-inch map (Fifeshire, New Series, sheet xiii.15). One airshaft or sink hole, possibly associated with the mine workings, was noted in woodland at NO 3393 0841.
All that now remains of the farmworkers cottages at Claybriggs is a building platform (NO 3382 0847). Claybriggs is noted in the OS Name Book as a 'few cottage houses on the farm of Brotus occupied by farm labourers' (ONB 1856).
The footings of a building with a machinery plinth with its fixing bolts is situated in scrub vegetation on the N side of the road 40m to the NE of Claybriggs. The building is shown roofed on the current OS 1:2500 map (1965). The magazine depicted on the OS 25-inch map was not visible on the date of visit.
Visited by RCAHMS (DE) November 1996 and May 1997
