Balbackie
Colliery(S) (Modern), Settling Tank(S) (Modern), Spoil Heap(S) (Modern)
Site Name Balbackie
Classification Colliery(S) (Modern), Settling Tank(S) (Modern), Spoil Heap(S) (Modern)
Alternative Name(s) Muirhouse
Canmore ID 134303
Site Number NS96SW 29
NGR NS 9065 6277
NGR Description Centred on 9065 6277
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/134303
- Council North Lanarkshire
- Parish Shotts (Motherwell)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Motherwell
- Former County Lanarkshire
Aerial Photographic Interpretation (28 September 1998)
NS96SW 29 905 618
The large spoil tips of Balbackie coal mines are visible in air photographs (RCAHMSAP 1995) amidst woodland 1km S of Harthill. The larger spoil tip (CSW 5084; NS 9055 6305) overlies a series of coal mines recorded as 'old coal pits' on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Lanarkshire 1855-9, sheet ix), located approximately at NS 9060 6310 (CSW 5056), NS 9051 6305 (CSW 5057), and NS 9055 6290 (CSW 5058). The spoil heap is recorded on the OS 2nd-edition map (Lanarkshire 1899, sheet ix SE), with a 'dismantled tramway' running off to the NNW, and a mineral railway to the S. By the time of the revised edition of this map (1916), the mineral railway was also dismantled. 150m to the SE is a second, smaller, rectangular spoil tip (NS 9084 6264; CSW 5089), depicted on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map (Linlithgowshire 1854-5, sheet xi NE) with a dismantled railway leaving it to the S.
Information from RCAHMS (KB) 28 September 1998
MS 731/11
