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Byreburnfoot

Building(S) (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Byreburnfoot

Classification Building(S) (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Birnfoot; Canonbie Coalfield

Canmore ID 105362

Site Number NY37NE 34.01

NGR NY 3904 7802

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Dumfries And Galloway
  • Parish Canonbie
  • Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
  • Former District Annandale And Eskdale
  • Former County Dumfries-shire

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Field Visit (11 August 1993)

NY37NE 34.01 3904 7802

A plan of the coal seams published in 1862 identifies the position of a water wheel incline and its associated building (NY37NE 34.01), situated on the NW side of the Byre Burn, about 50m to the NE of Byreburnfoot Bridge. Two roofed buildings are shown at this location on the 1st and 2nd editions of the OS map, and both are now ruinous (Dumfriesshire, sheet liii, 1862 and 1900 respectively). The larger of the two is situated on a revetted terrace above the burn, and, although it has been modified on several occasions, two narrow vertical slots are still visible in the SE wall; these are probably related to a pulley system.

Visited by RCAHMS (ARW, SPH), 11 August 1993.

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