Kings Laggan
Copper Mine (Post Medieval)
Site Name Kings Laggan
Classification Copper Mine (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 63657
Site Number NX55NE 34
NGR NX 5618 5781
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kirkmabreck
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX55NE 34 5618 5781
For field-system see NX55NE 88.
Lauchentyre - NX 559 572, and Kings Laggan - NX 562 578 are two old copper mines, near the farms of the same names. Both consisted of single shafts and levels, and were apparently worked on a small scale. They were probably opened by lessees of the Cally estates in the 1840s and 1850s.
I Donnachie 1971.
The old mine at Kings Laggan is at NX 5618 5781.
Visited by OS (DWR), 25 February 1972.
Field Visit (9 February 1994)
A collapsed adit is visible on the W bank of an unnamed tributary of the Black Burn to the NNW of King's Laggan farmsteading. Wilson (1921) records that a level was driven into the hillside and a shaft sunk. Fragments of pre-Improvement earth-and-stone field banks are visible around the mine and in a narrow band along the N side of the drystone wall to the N and E of the farmsteading (see NX55NE 88). (Cree94 370) Visited by RCAHMS (DCC), 9 February 1994.
