'Silver Mine', Bardarroch
Lead Mine (Period Unassigned)
Site Name 'Silver Mine', Bardarroch
Classification Lead Mine (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 63019
Site Number NX37SE 12
NGR NX 3775 7288
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/63019
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Minnigaff
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX37SE 12 3775 7288.
A lead mine abandoned for the second time in 1836 although its two shafts were still open in 1850. Locally known as 'Silver Mine'.
Name Book 1850.
Desk-based assessments and surveys were carried out between October and December 2002 at three metal mining sites in Galloway. [see NX56SW 2 and NX 59SW 1 also]
NX 377 728 Silver Rig Mine, N of Newton Stewart. Located within Glentrool Forest, this is a small 19th-century silver/lead mine with evidence of earlier opencast workings. The principal features are the upstanding remains of a water wheel pit, air and lifting shafts, an administrative building, and a lade water supply.
Report lodged with Dumfries and Galloway SMR and the NMRS.
Sponsors: HS, Dumfries and Galloway Council.
M Cressey and K Hicks 2003
