Scheduled Monument
Pibble,lead minesSM5289
Status: Designated
Documents
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The legal document available for download below constitutes the formal designation of the monument under the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979. The additional details provided on this page are provided for information purposes only and do not form part of the designation. Historic Environment Scotland accepts no liability for any loss or damages arising from reliance on any inaccuracies within this additional information.
Summary
- Date Added
- 03/02/1992
- Type
- Industrial: engine, engine house; mines, quarries; non-ferrous metals; tip, bing, dump
- Local Authority
- Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish
- Kirkmabreck
- NGR
- NX 52611 60609
- Coordinates
- 252611, 560609
Description
The monument consists of the remains of a lead mine, probably mid 19th century in date. The mine lies along the line of a zone of mineralisation. It is orientated roughly NW-SE on a steeply sloping hillside. From bottom to top the main features are: the substantial remains of a wheel pit for a wheel about 18m in diameter; a vertical shaft, partly filled; about half of an engine house for a steam pumping engine, with the associated shaft; a reservoir supplying water to the engine; a drainage level; a trial level; and a working level, together with associated tracks, spoil heaps and underground workings.
The area to be scheduled is irregular in shape, about 700m by 280m. It includes the principal features and an area around in which traces of activities associated with their construction and use may survive, and is as marked in red on the attached map. Dry stane dykes and other land boundaries are excluded from this scheduling.
Statement of National Importance
The monument is of national importance because it has the most complete set of surface buildings of any non-ferrous metal mine in Scotland. The visible remains of exploitation are unusually complete for a Scottish metal mine. The south Galloway area of mineralisation was one of the most important in Scotland, and the engine house and very large waterwheel pit represent best mid-19th century practice in mine drainage.
References
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