Steelend
Building (Post Medieval), Colliery (Post Medieval), Engine House (Post Medieval), Ironstone Mine (Post Medieval), Tramway (Modern)
Site Name Steelend
Classification Building (Post Medieval), Colliery (Post Medieval), Engine House (Post Medieval), Ironstone Mine (Post Medieval), Tramway (Modern)
Canmore ID 79181
Site Number NT09SE 53
NGR NT 053 933
NGR Description Centred NT 053 933
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/79181
- Council Fife
- Parish Saline
- Former Region Fife
- Former District Dunfermline
- Former County Fife
Field Visit (8 October 1991)
NT09SE 53.00 centred 053 933
NT09SE 53.01 NT 0549 9327 Building; Datestone (Cleish91 446)
NT09SE 53.02 NT 053 932 Coal Mine; Buildings; Tramroads (Cleish91 447-52)
NT09SE 53.03 NT 050 934 Ironstone Mine (Cleish91 506-7)
This extraction site extends up a shallow valley to the N of Steelend Steading (NT09SE 51). It comprises a scatter of drift mines, shafts and spoil dumps, together with several buildings and a tramroad which connected with the railway spur serving West Lethans.
(Cleish91 28-9, 441-3, 446-52, 506-7)
Visited by RCAHMS (SPH) 8 October 1991.
