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Inzievar No.3 Pit

Over Inzievar, Oakley, Fife.

Mine (ironstone & coal), 19th Century.

"shaft just to the north-east of Over Inzievar worked the Parrot Coal at 2 fathoms and the Blackband Ironstone at 42 fathoms." [Fife Pits]

This now-treated pit shaft provided entry into the 'western workings' of the Inzievar ironfield, and a cross-over passage gave access to higher-level N-S-trending coal workings located to the E and SE of the shaft. The site is now occupied by a patch of woodland overgrowing an associated bing, just NE of the sharp bend along the Oakley to Valleyfield road.

See 'Over Inzievar [1]' (Site #7426) for main entry, and abandonment plans for further details of ironfield.

Alternative Names: Oakley No.3 Pit

Notes: Depth given as 42 fathoms on Fife Pits map. This would place the base of the shaft below MSL. Shaft named as 'No.3 Pit' on abandonment plan.

8 fig. coordinates determined using OS georeferencing tool (geol. survey map).