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Redding Colliery
Colliery(S) (19th Century), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name Redding Colliery
Classification Colliery(S) (19th Century), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 84115
Site Number NS87SE 22
NGR NS 885 748
NGR Description Centred NS 885 748
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/84115
- Council Falkirk
- Parish Slamannan
- Former Region Central
- Former District Falkirk
- Former County Stirlingshire
Field Visit (July 1992)
NS87SE 22 centred 88 74
The 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map (Stirlingshire 1899, sheets xxx and xxxv) depicts five working pits of Redding Colliery around Loch Ellrig, situated on branches of a mineral railway which led off to the NE. To the W of the loch there were Pits No.20 and 21 (NS 8816 7456, CSW 4419; NS 8774 7497, CSW 4415). From these a railway siding turned E passing, to the N of the loch, Pit No.19 (NS 8821 7549, CSW 5471) and Pit No.17 (NS 8905 7521, CSW 5462). Pit No.22 was situated to the S of the loch, on another branch of the railway (NS 8850 7480, CSW 4418). A sixth pit, already abandoned, is indicated on the map by the depiction of spoil close to the junction of these sidings, at NS 8954 7492 (CSW 4423). All of these pits were out of use by the time the map was revised in 1914 (Stirlingshire 1922, sheets xxx and xxxv), although a new pit, No.24, had opened to the SE of the loch (NS 8935 7468, CSW 4422). The 'Catalogue of Plans of Abandoned Mines' (Mines Department 1931) notes the abandonment of workings at Redding Pit No.17 as early as 1881. Further closures are noted there in 1914 and 1915 at Nos. 17, 19, 20, 21, 22 and 24 and it may be that these mines finally closed at that time.
Pit No.20 (CSW 4419) has been removed by opencast mining operations, and the remains of No.19 (CSW 5471) are badly disturbed, but the bings survive at the other five sites, along with occasional traces of other structures: sandstone blocks, perhaps the bases for winding gear, at NS 8954 7492 (CSW 4423), a possible building to the NE of the bing at NS 8935 7468 (CSW 4422), and holes to the S and SE of the bing at NS 8850 7480 (CSW 4418), possibly marking the position of the shafts.
(CSW 4415, 4418-9, 4422-3, 5462, 5471)
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) July 1992
Aerial Photographic Interpretation (19 August 1998)
Identified from aerial photographs, an area of rig and furrow cultivation to the N of, and adjacent to, Blackbrigs farmsteading and centered on NS 8859 7468. It extends for a distance of 900m E to W and is lost from view 50m to the S of Loch Ellrig. This area of rig and furrow cultivation was also identified from vertical air photographs taken by the OS. This provided the basis for a distribution map created for publication by the RCAHMS (RCAHMS 1998; DC39367).
Information from RCAHMS (KB) 19 August 1998
