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Bute, Ascog
Coal Works (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Bute, Ascog
Classification Coal Works (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 40723
Site Number NS16SW 4
NGR NS 104 639
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/40723
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kingarth
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Buteshire
NS16SW 4 10 63.
"The coal seam at Ascog was wrought at a very early period, and again in 1663 by Mr Stuart of Ballintoy...who bored to a considerable depth at high-water mark..."
J E Reid 1864
No further information encountered.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 14 January 1964
Field Visit (20 May 2009)
This corn-drying kiln was not found on the date of visit on the steep, heavily overgrown, S bank of the Ascog Burn, where, some 70m S of Burnside Cottage, there are disused stone and coal quarries. One of the quarry scoops may have been misidentified as a kiln.
Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH, JMH) 20 May 2009.
