Bridge-end
Mine (Post Medieval), Shaft(S) (Post Medieval), Spoil Heap(S) (Post Medieval)
Site Name Bridge-end
Classification Mine (Post Medieval), Shaft(S) (Post Medieval), Spoil Heap(S) (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Levenseat Quarries
Canmore ID 87210
Site Number NS95NW 79
NGR NS 9369 5966
NGR Description NS 9369 5966 and NS 9377 5968
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/87210
- Council West Lothian
- Parish West Calder
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District West Lothian
- Former County Midlothian
Field Visit (26 January 1995)
NS95NW 79 9369 5966 and 9377 5968
A shaft (NS 9369 5966) and several spoil tips are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Edinburghshire, 1864, sheet xv) immediately SE of Bridge-end. The spoil tip associated with this shaft, and another (at NS 9377 5968) are still clearly visible, but much of this area has recently been afforested and a number of spoil tips were destroyed between the revision dates of 1864 and 1895 during the construction of the Edinburgh-Glasgow railway and the branch line that served the ironstone mines (NS95NW 16.00), on the Gladsmuir Hills (OS 6-inch map, Edinburghshire, 2nd edition, 1895, sheet x.SW).
(CSW 1699, 2800 and 2802-3)
Visited by RCAHMS (JRS), 26 January 1995.
NMRS, MS/731/11.
