Drumbuck Mine
Copper Mine (20th Century)
Site Name Drumbuck Mine
Classification Copper Mine (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Doon Of Culreoch; Little Water Of Fleet
Canmore ID 88543
Site Number NX56SE 33
NGR NX 5834 6381
NGR Description Centred NX 582 636
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/88543
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Girthon
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Stewartry
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
Field Visit (14 April 1994)
NX56SE 33 centred 582 636
This mine is situated on the E side of the valley of the Little Water of Fleet, on the NW flank of the Doon of Culreoch. Four levels are ranged across the hillside, on an axis from WNW to ESE, with a shuttered concrete tank (possibly a settling pond) and a concrete winding-mechanism base on the terrace at the WNW side of the workings. A brick-built magazine lies on a terrace a little to the S of the mine. The mine was opened a few years before the First World War (it is not shown on the revision of the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map (Kirkcudbrightshire 1908, sheet xli), but the efficiency of the crusher resulted in the loss of the majority of the ore (Wilson and Flett, 1921). Wilson and Flett identified three levels (NX 5825 6367,NX 5834 6361 and NX 5847 6357), the lowest one of which was about 800 ft long.
(Cree94 217)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 14 April 1994.
