Mine Sike
Lead Mine (18th Century) - (19th Century), Quarry (18th Century) - (19th Century)
Site Name Mine Sike
Classification Lead Mine (18th Century) - (19th Century), Quarry (18th Century) - (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Westwater; Standingstone Edge; Cock Law
Canmore ID 97620
Site Number NY28SE 60
NGR NY 2918 8189
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/97620
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Langholm
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
Field Visit (3 March 1994)
NY28SE 60 2918 8189
A linear opencast quarry is situated on the W bank of Mine Sike, opposite a probable stone quarry. The former appears to be no more than a trial trench, where a lead-bearing vein has been exposed on the surface and quarried. A band of spoil lies immediately to the E, and comrpises earth and broken stone, some with traces of lead ore. The discovery of lead is mentioned in the Statistical Account and a map of the parish of Langholm drawn for the Buccleuch estate in 1810 (and now in the Scottish Record Office) indicates a lead mine at this location.
The stone quarry, on the E bank of Mine Sike, has destroyed the SW corner of a small field, defined by an earthen bank and enclosing traces of rig and furrow cultivation (NY28SE 21).
Visited by RCAHMS (ARW, JRS), 3 March 1994.
Stat Acct 1791-9; SRO, GD 224/388/9/2 and 5.
Listed as lead mine.
RCAHMS 1997.
