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Hillhead
Colliery (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Site Name Hillhead
Classification Colliery (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Canmore ID 82680
Site Number NS86NE 34
NGR NS 8607 6960
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/82680
- Council Falkirk
- Parish New Monkland (Falkirk)
- Former Region Central
- Former District Falkirk
- Former County Lanarkshire
Field Visit (10 August 1992)
NS86NE 34 8607 6960
The remains of three bings and a plinth for winding-gear are situated on the S of Black Loch. Two of the bings lie beside the loch; the E bing is conical with a ridge for conveyor running up its N side, and the W bing has brick building foundations on the W. The third bing, which lies 200m to the S, is crow's foot-shaped on plan and flat-topped with a tramway leading to it. The 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map depicts the mine, called 'Hillhead Pit No.1', as three buildings and shows a railway siding leading W from the mine (Lanarkshire 1899, sheet iv). By the revised edition of the OS 6-inch map there were two bings on either side of the pit-head buildings (Lanarkshire 1921, sheet iv, resurveyed 1910). All levels had been abandoned by June 1930 (Mines Department 1931).
(CSW 4356)
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 10 August 1992
