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Upper Wellwood

Horse Engine Platform(S) (Post Medieval), Mine (Post Medieval), Shaft(S) (Post Medieval)

Site Name Upper Wellwood

Classification Horse Engine Platform(S) (Post Medieval), Mine (Post Medieval), Shaft(S) (Post Medieval)

Canmore ID 76361

Site Number NS62NE 34.01

NGR NS 6850 2510

NGR Description Centred NS 6850 2510

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council East Ayrshire
  • Parish Muirkirk
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Cumnock And Doon Valley
  • Former County Ayrshire

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Field Visit (February 1991 - November 1991)

NS62NE 34.01 centred 6850 2510

Within this area, 50 mine-shafts have been identified. These range from small bell-pits with a rim of spoil to mine-shafts with the remains of pit-head buildings and massive spoil dumps, and in eleven instances a horse-engine platform is visible adjacent to the mouth of the shaft. Only four of the mines were in use when the 1st ed of the OS 25-inch map was surveyed in 1856, and of these two continued in production until at least 1896, when the 2nd ed was published (Ayrshire, Sheet xxx.12, 1856 {survey date} and 1896). The most productive of the mines in this area was Wellwood Pit No. 1, sunk in 1815, and the first in the Muirkirk mineral field to have a steam-driven engine (see NS62NE 34.00).

Visited by RCAHMS (ARW, SPH), February-November 1991.

NMRS MS 731\6.

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