Langleas [Ironstone Pit] - Scottish Cave and Mine Database Site Details

Map with: Google Map, or OS Explorer Map from Streetmap.co.uk

Other Sites Within 500m

Langleas [Ironstone Pit]

NGR:	NT 01600 87960
WGS84:	56.07430, -3.58238
Length:	Not recorded
Vert. Range:	110 m
Altitude:	84 m
Geology:	Upper Limestone Fm / Limestone Coal Fm
Tags:	Mine, Shaft, Archaeo, Lost
Registry:	second

Treated shaft located at large grassy / overgrown mound approx. 80 m wide, probably a spoil heap associated with the mine.

Notes: Marked as 'Old Shaft' on 1914 OS map, and "60fms" coal pit on Fife Pits map. However, the geological survey map states "BB.I at ?60fms" [Blackband Ironstone at 110m], suggesting that this was an ironstone pit.

BGS states name of Oakley No.2 Pit (ref. 182165), although they also apply the same name to another site (ref. 182168) further N.

Links and Resources:

Geological survey map, 1928. Fife Sheet XXXVIII.NW - View
Abandonment Plan (AP194): Plan Of The Farm Of Over Inzievar Shewing Blackband Ironstone Workings 1870. (Inzievar Nos. 3 & 4) - View
Abandonment Plan (AP14771.1): Plan Shewing The Farm Of Over Inzievar And The Blackband Ironstone Workings Therein 1870. - View
OS 25" map, 1896. Fifeshire Sheet XXXVIII.1 - View
MRA Ref: 301687-001

This entry was last updated: 2025-11-04 08:40:41

Errors or omissions in this information? Submit corrections/additions/comments for this entry to the registrars.

All database content Copyright 2026 Grampian Speleological Group.
Web Registry software by Matt Voysey.