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Bay Mine (Pumping Shaft) Whytes Cleugh [Shaft] Dod Water Crosscut Bay Mine (Low Level) Wanlock Dod [NW Adit] Tait's Adit [Mouth] New Glencrieff Mine (Adit Level Shaft) New Glencrieff Mine (Adit Level) [N] Cove Mine (Whimsey Shaft) Cove Vein [Shaft] Old Glencrieff [Pates Knowe] Cove Vein (Laddered Shaft) Cove Engine Shaft Burn Shaft [Whytes Cleugh] New Glencrieff Mine (High Adit) New Glencrieff Mine (Pump Shaft) Wanlock Dod [Adit] New Glencrieff Mine [Glencrieff Cottage] Straitstep Vein [Adit] Ramage's Shaft Glenglass Adit (Shaft) [V] Glenglass Adit (Shaft) [IV] Straitsteps Mine (High Level) Laird's Shaft Glenglass Adit (Shaft) [III] Wilson's Vein [Shaft] New Glencrieff Mine (Jerry Shaft) High Drift [Adit] New Glencrieff Mine (Pump Shaft) [II] New Glencrieff Mine (Shaft) [II] Meadow Level [Adit] Old Glencrieff Mine (Shankiland's Shaft) New Glencrieff Mine (West Glencrieff Pit) New Glencrieff Mine (Thunderhall Pit) Glenglass Adit (Shaft) [II] New Glencrieff Mine (Laurie's Shaft) Glenglass Adit (Mouth) String Shaft / Deep Shaft
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Whytes Cleugh, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire.
| NGR: | NS 86790 13660 |
| WGS84: | 55.40376, -3.78938 |
| Length: | Not recorded |
| Vert. Range: | Not recorded |
| Altitude: | 384 m |
| Geology: | Lead, Zinc |
| Tags: | Mine, Shaft, Archaeo, Lost, SSSI, SAM |
| Registry: | second |
Mine shaft.
"Two shafts, one for pumping and one for winding, reach the adit, known as Milligan's Level, about 33m below the surface. The top of the winding shaft has fallen in, leaving a crater in loose ground." [NMRS, 1976]
See 'Bay Mine (Pumping Shaft)' [site #340] for main Bay Mine entry.
Alternative Names: None recorded.
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This entry was last updated: 2026-04-08 14:30:49
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