Skyre Burn
Copper Mine (Post Medieval)
Site Name Skyre Burn
Classification Copper Mine (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Lauchentyre
Canmore ID 63656
Site Number NX55NE 33
NGR NX 5578 5715
NGR Description centred NX5578 5715
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/63656
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kirkmabreck
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
Field Visit (9 February 1994)
NX55NE 33 5578 5715
Old Mine.
OS 6" map (1957).
This copper mine is situated in a semi-improved field to the SSE of Lauchentyre. A shaft, a bing, what may be a horse-engine platform, and a collapsed adit, are visible. The mine appears to have been in much the same condition when visited by Wilson (1921).
(Cree94 12)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 9 February 1994.
Publication Account (2008)
NX55NE 33
centred NX5578 5715 (also known as Skyre Burn)
'Lauchentyre Copper Mine'
(location cited as NX557573 & NX567597)
'...sunk about 1850...trials only going in 10 yards each.'
Grampian Speleological Group (2008)
