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Balquhatstone Colliery
Colliery (19th Century)
Site Name Balquhatstone Colliery
Classification Colliery (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Blackrig
Canmore ID 84069
Site Number NS87SE 10.01
NGR NS 8472 7092
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/84069
- Council Falkirk
- Parish Slamannan
- Former Region Central
- Former District Falkirk
- Former County Stirlingshire
Field Visit (28 August 1992)
NS87SE 10.01 8472 7092
The westernmost coal mine, annotated Pit No.1 on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map (Stirlingshire 1899, sheet xxxv), comprises two large bings and a pit, marking the shaft, on the SE of the railway line, to the E of which are plinths of brick and sandstone for the winding gear. The bing to the N is undisturbed and overlies the rig of Blackrig farm (see RCAHMSAP 1991), whilst that to the S has been reworked. A group of what may have been filter beds lie to the W, between the mine and the Culloch Burn, the edges of which are marked by an embanked perimeter (RCAHMSAP 1991).
(CSW 4173)
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 28 August 1992
