Avonhead Colliery

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Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)

Site Name Avonhead Colliery

Classification Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)

Canmore ID 133183

Site Number NS86NW 13.11

NGR NS 8057 6998

NGR Description Centred NS 8042 6989

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/133183

Digital Images

SC 1725861

Avonhead Colliery, oblique aerial view, taken from the SE, showing the spoil heaps of four coal mines in the centre of the photograph, an area of rig underlying these spoil heaps, and peat cuttings in the bottom half.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

2/2/1995

DP 038577

Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of collieries, farmstead and rig, taken from the NW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

18/2/2008

SC 1725864

Avonhead Colliery, oblique aerial view, taken from the NNW, showing the spoil heaps of five coal mines and the remains of miners' rows in the centre of the photograph, an area of rig in the centre, and peat cuttings in the top half. Slamannan Railway runs across the top of the photograph, left to right.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

2/2/1995

SC 1725860

Avonhead Colliery, oblique aerial view, taken from the SSE, showing the spoil heaps of three coal mines in the centre of the photograph, an area of rig in the centre right, and peat cuttings in the bottom half.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

2/2/1995

DP 038578

Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of collieries, farmstead and rig, taken from the SW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

18/2/2008

SC 1725863

Avonhead Colliery, oblique aerial view, taken from the N, showing the spoil heaps of four coal mines and the remains of miners' rows in the centre of the photograph, an area of rig in the left centre and peat cuttings in the top half. Slamannan Railway runs across the top of the photograph, left to right.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

2/2/1995

DP 038579

Oblique aerial view centred on the remains of collieries and rig, taken from the SE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

18/2/2008

SC 1725859

Avonhead Colliery, oblique aerial view, taken from the SW, showing the spoil heaps of five coal mines and the faint remains of miners' rows in the centre of the photograph, and an area of rig in the top half, and peat cuttings in the bottom half.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

2/2/1995

SC 1725862

Avonhead Colliery, oblique aerial view, taken from the NE, showing spoil heaps of four coal mines in the centre of the photograph, and faint remains of miners' rows. There is also an area of rig in the bottom half of the photograph, and peat cuttings in the top half.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

2/2/1995

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Administrative Areas

Council North Lanarkshire
Parish New Monkland (Monklands)
Former Region Strathclyde
Former District Monklands
Former County Lanarkshire

Activities

Aerial Photographic Interpretation (19 August 1998)

RCAHMS Afforestable Land Survey, Central Scottish Woodland

NS86NW 13.11 centred 8057 6998

Identified from aerial photographs, an area of rig and furrow cultivation, centred on NS 8042 6989, and extending from within the area of Avonhead Colliery (see NS86NW 13.00) to as far N as Greensdykeside farmsteading (NS 8110 7039). This area of rig and furrow cultivation was also identified from vertical air photographs taken by the OS. This provided the basis for a distribution map created for publication by the RCAHMS (RCAHMS 1998; DC39367).

Information from RCAHMS (KB) 19 August 1998.

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