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Cove Engine Shaft Cove Mine (Whimsey Shaft) Wanlock Dod [Adit] Cove Vein [Shaft] Ramage's Shaft Cove Vein (Laddered Shaft) Crawford's Vein [Adit] Tait's Adit [Mouth] High Drift [Adit] Bay Mine (Winding Shaft) Burn Shaft [Whytes Cleugh] Bay Mine (Pumping Shaft) Straitstep Vein [Adit] Wilson's Vein [Shaft] Crawford's Vein [Whytes Cleugh] Belton Grain Mine [Wanlock Dod] Dod Water Crosscut Straitsteps Mine (High Level) Whytes Cleugh [Shaft] Belton Grain [Trial] (II) String Shaft / Deep Shaft Belton Grain Mine [New Vein Shaft] Rough Brae (Trial) Old Glencrieff [Pates Knowe] Weir's Vein [Shaft] Lochnell Mine (Dod Level) Belton Grain Mine [Shaft] (II) Straitsteps Mine (Little's Engine Shaft) Straitsteps Mine (Engine Shaft) Straitsteps Mine [Lower Adit] Crawford's Vein [Cam Sheugh] Lochnell Mine [Shaft] Belton Grain [Shaft] Old Glencrieff Mine [Shaft] (II) High Pirn Mine Bay Mine (Low Level) Belton Grain [Trial] Laird's Shaft Old Glencrieff Mine (Shankiland's Shaft) Old Glencrieff Mine [Shaft]
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Wanlock Dod, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire.
| NGR: | NS 87070 13590 |
| WGS84: | 55.40320, -3.78493 |
| Length: | Not recorded |
| Vert. Range: | Not recorded |
| Altitude: | 500 m |
| Geology: | Portpatrick Formation - wacke |
| Tags: | Adit, Trial, Archaeo, Lost |
| Registry: | second |
Adit, probably blocked.
Labelled at given coordinates on BGS 10k map, site now occupied by heathland. Probably a trial for lead, located W of the main Cove / Lochnell Veins & not mapped on regional mine plan for the Wanlockhead Mines.
Alternative Names: None recorded.
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This entry was last updated: 2026-03-25 14:46:51
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