Oblique aerial view.
B 47154
Description Oblique aerial view.
Date 1991
Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography
Catalogue Number B 47154
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 436065, SC 1859219, SC 370282
Scope and Content Mining remains at Nether Wellwood, Muirkirk, Ayrshire The mining remains at Muirkirk cover more than 9 sq km and include a tarworks and an ironworks. Both required coal for fuel, and the ironworks also needed iron ore and limestone, all of which were available locally by opencast mining and quarrying. Seen from the air under a light covering of snow, the spoil-bings from the mines are seen as circular craters with radiating barrow-runs. They are part of the mineral field that provided raw materials for the Muirkirk ironworks. The tarworks was set up in 1786 by the Earl of Dundonald and later taken over by J L MacAdam, the famous road engineer. The ironworks was founded in 1787 and flourished until the ironstone seams were exhausted in 1923. Coal mining ended in 1968. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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