Kepplehill Colliery
Colliery (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Kepplehill Colliery
Classification Colliery (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Kepplehill Farm; Blackhall; Stane Mine; Kepplehill 1 And 2 Colliery
Canmore ID 85937
Site Number NS85NE 37
NGR NS 8765 5820
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/85937
- Council North Lanarkshire
- Parish Cambusnethan
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Motherwell
- Former County Lanarkshire
Field Visit (12 January 1995)
NS85NE 37.00 8765 5820.
NS85NE 37.01 8770 5810 Spoil Heap (CSW 6988)
NS85NE 37.02 8774 5763 Shaft (CSW 3385)
Mine (dis) [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1985.
This mine was opened (by the National Col Board) is 1948 and closed in 1953; it produced steam and household coal. There were two shafts; no. 1 being 59 fathoms deep and no. 2 (ventilation) 31.3 fathoms.
(NMRS MS/819).
The Kepplehill Colliery is depicted on the 2nd edition and 1921 revision of the OS 6-inch map (Lanarkshire, 1899, sheet xiii and 1921, sheet xiii.SW, respectively) as a complex of buildings, tanks and spoil heaps connected to the Shotts branch line by a mineral railway. The mine was disused by 1985 and its recorded location falls within an area of open-cast mining.
(CSW 3382)
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS, IF) 12 January 1995.
MS/731/11
Note (2006)
(Location cited as NS 8765 5816 ). KEPPLEHILL 1 and 2 Colliery (also known as STANE)
Location: Shotts
Previous Owners: Kepplehill Coal Company, Shotts Iron Company from 1918
Types of Coal: Steam and House
Sinking/Production Commenced: 1897
Year Closed: 1951
Year Abandoned: 1955
Average Workforce: 279
Peak Workforce: 303
Peak Year: 1948
Shaft/Mine Details: 2 shafts, No. 1 108m, and No. 2 57m deep (for ventilation)
Details in 1948: Output 250 tons per day, 69,052 tons per annum, longwall working. 303 employees. 3 picking tables [flat or sloping table onto which raw coal tipped to be sorted], Lurig washer [mechanical equipment for the wet cleaning of coal]. No baths, snack canteen, first-aid services. AC and DC electricity all from National Coal Board (NCB) Central Power Station at Shotts. Report dated 28-07-1948.
Other Details: Opencast mine at site between 1989 and 1999.
M K Oglethorpe 2006.