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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

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Administrative Areas

  • Council North Lanarkshire
  • Parish Cambusnethan
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Motherwell
  • Former County Lanarkshire

Activities

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.

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