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July 2010
Site Name: Burnfoot
Site Type: Structures
SMR Record: WoSAS Pin 15716
Site Description:
NS 9850 5573.
On the north side of a track from Burnfoot Cottage (ruin) towards Wester Mosshat. Square built structure circa 4.5 metres long and circa 1.5 metres high. Doorway in south side 1.5 metres wide. Concrete slabs, possible roof, lying on west side. Bricks are marked with "FREW". Other concrete slabs set into the ground nearby. Large mound of cinders and red shale debris to the NW of the brick structure.
Visited Heather James, WoSAS 05/94
The 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map (Lanarkshire 1899, sheet xiv) depicts a spoil heap and two 'Old Shafts' to the NE of Burnfoot Cottage (NS95NE 52), apparently an abandoned oil-shale mine. The visible remains consist of a partly-robbed bing, composed largely of burnt shale, surmounted by a machine plinth, with the remains of brick buildings to the SE and SW and a pit to the W. The two shafts depicted on the 2nd edition map are visible as hollows in marshy ground at NS 9853 5571 (CSW 2984) and NS 9859 5575 (CSW 2985).
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 15 July 1994
Sources:
- SRC SMR, 'Submission by Strathclyde SMR (for year to 31 October 1994)', Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, 1994