Wilsontown | Canmore

Bell Pit(S) (18th Century) - (19th Century)

Site Name Wilsontown

Classification Bell Pit(S) (18th Century) - (19th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Wilsontown Ironworks

Canmore ID 99535

Site Number NS95SE 11.12

NGR NS 9523 5511

NGR Description Centred NS 9523 5511

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/99535

Digital Images

SC 503584

Oblique aerial view, taken from the SW, showing the remains of ironworks, lime kilns, coke ovens and workers' rows in the centre and bottom of the photograph, and a large area of bell pits in the centre and top right-hand corner.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

2/2/1995

SC 1728816

Wilsontown, oblique aerial view, taken from the SW, showing the remains of ironworks, lime kilns, coke ovens and workers' rows in the centre and bottom of the photograph, and a large area of bell pits in the centre and top right-hand corner.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

2/2/1995

SC 1728819

Wilsontown, oblique aerial view, taken from the E, showing the the remains of workers' rows and buildings, and bell pits, across the bottom half of the photograph.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

2/2/1995

SC 1859342

Wilsontown, oblique aerial view, taken from the ESE, showing the remains of workers' rows and buildings across the centre of the photograph, lime kilns in the centre left, and a large area of bell pits in the bottom half.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

2/2/1995

SC 370632

Publication drawing; 'Wilsontown Iron Works, Site plan, compiled from ground survey, aerial photographs and OS map detail'.

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Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

1998

SC 354304

Scanned image of oblique aerial view, taken from the N, of Wilsontown Ironworks; centred on an area of bell pits. The works lie to the top right of the photograph.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

2/2/1995

SC 596847

Scanned image of oblique aerial view, taken from the ESE, showing the remains of workers' rows and buildings across the centre of the photograph, lime kilns in the centre left, and a large area of bell pits in the bottom half. Digital image of C41142.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

2/2/1995

SC 1728812

Wilsontown, oblique aerial view, taken from the ESE, showing the remains of workers' rows in the centre left of the photograph, and the ruined public house and shop, and a large area of bell pits, in the centre.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

2/2/1995

SC 1728814

Wilsontown, oblique aerial view, taken from the E, showing the bings of two coal mines in the centre left of the photograph, and the remains of a workers' row, and an area of bell pits, in the centre right.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

2/2/1995

SC 2705864

Oblique aerial view, taken from the N, of Wilsontown Ironworks; centred on an area of bell pits. Theworks lie to the top right of the photograph.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

8/2/1995

SC 503576

Scanned image of oblique aerial view, taken from the NE, showing the bings of two coal mines at the bottom, and the remains of ironworks, workers' rows, lime kilns, coke ovens and buildings across the remainder of the photograph, including a large area of bell pits in the centre and top left-hand corner.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

2/2/1995

SC 1728811

Wilsontown, oblique aerial view, taken from the NE, showing the bings of two coal mines at the bottom, and the remains of ironworks, workers' rows, lime kilns, coke ovens and buildings across the remainder of the photograph.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

2/2/1995

SC 1728815

Wilsontown, oblique aerial view, taken from the E, showing the remains of workers' rows in the bottom half of the photograph, and the ruins of the public house and shop in the bottom right-hand corner. A large area of bell pits in is visible in the centre right.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

2/2/1995

SC 1728817

Wilsontown, oblique aerial view, taken from the SSW, showing the bings of two coal mines at the top of the photograph, and the remains of workers' rows, buildings and bell pits in the bottom half.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

2/2/1995

DP 260054

A reconstruction drawing of the Wilsontown Ironworks by illustrator Michael Blackmore.

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General Collection

2009

SC 1683566

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

2/2/1995

SC 1683567

Wilsontown, oblique aerial view, taken from the SE, showing the the remains of ironworks, workers' rows, lime kilns, coke ovens, bell pits, and buildings across the photograph

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

2/2/1995

SC 1728818

Wilsontown, oblique aerial view, taken from the NE, showing the bings of two coal mines in the centre of the photograph, and the remains a worker's row, and bell pits, at the bottom.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

2/2/1995

SC 2529973

Engine house and bell pits from West.

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SC 1728813

Wilsontown, oblique aerial view, taken from the ESE, showing the remains of workers' rows in the centre left of the photograph, and the ruins of the public house and shop, and a large area of bell pits, in the centre.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

2/2/1995

Collections

Administrative Areas

Council South Lanarkshire
Parish Carnwath
Former Region Strathclyde
Former District Clydesdale
Former County Lanarkshire

Archaeology Notes

NS95SE 11.12 centred 952 551

To the E of the Wilsontown Ironworks (NS95SE 11.01), on former moorland now afforested, there are about seventy bell pits in an area measuring about 600m N-S by 200m E-W, each comprising a ring of grassed-over spoil around the head of a shaft. In some cases trackways can be traced running from one pit to another; these are generally fragmentary, but at least one track leads towards the remains of the ironworks. These pits are not depicted on an 1826 map of the Wilsontown estate (National Library of Scotland, Map Library, ref. no. EMS.P.166), nor are they shown on the 1st edition of the OS 25-inch map (Lanarkshire 1864, sheet xx.2), and it seems likely that they date from the early years of the ironworks, from 1779 onwards.

Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) October 1994.

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