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Carfin Tile Works
Tile Works (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Carfin Tile Works
Classification Tile Works (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 333135
Site Number NS75NE 49.01
NGR NS 76780 58663
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/333135
- Council North Lanarkshire
- Parish Bothwell (Motherwell)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Motherwell
- Former County Lanarkshire
Desk Based Assessment (23 July 2012 - 26 July 2012)
Production of a gazetteer and map of cultural heritage sites and monuments in close proximity to the A723 route. Written summary of the importance and archaeological potential of identified sites.
Information from OASIS Id: cfaarcha1-422131 (G Mudie) 2012
Note (1 November 2013)
Carfin Tile Works
Named as 'Tileworks' on 1st edition 6-inch Ordnance Survey Map (Lanarkshire, (survey) 1859, sheet XII) centred on NS76903 58578.
Depicted and named 'Clay Pit' (NS76886 58520), unnamed clay pit (NS76877 58597) and 'Kiln' (NS76904 58614) and four roofed buildings, three of which on the site of the later Carfin Brickworks (NS76811 58615; NS76821 58636; NS76830 58622, NS75NE 49.00).
By 1897, the tileworks clay pit at NS76886 58520 had been abandoned and the kiln and L-shaped building (at NS76877 58580) demolished, as have the other three roofed buildings on the Carfin Brickworks site (2nd Edition Ordnance Survey 6-inch map, Lanarkshire, (published) 1899), sheet XII.SW).
Information from MS/500/53/11 (compiled 1981) and RCAHMS (MMD), 1 November 2013.
