Saline Valley Colliery Pit No.3

Steelend, Saline, Fife.

NGR:	NT 05118 93098
WGS84:	56.12116, -3.52772
Length:	Not recorded
Vert. Range:	Not recorded
Altitude:	230 m
Geology:	Limestone Coal Formation
Tags:	Mine, Shaft, ManMade, Lost, CoalMine
Registry:	second

Coal mine, site of.

Late 19th Century, possibly extending into earliest 20th. Appears to have been in use on 1897 OS map (surveyed 1894), but absent from the 1915 map (surveyed in 1913) and 1855 (surv. 1853) versions.

Alternative Names: None recorded.

Notes: See 'Saline Valley Colliery Pit No.1' [Site 7444] for Steelend mines overview.

Coordinates from Pastmap (using shakehole), matching those of abandoned shaft on geol. survey map.

Links and Resources:

Site 7444: Saline Valley Colliery Pit No.1
Canmore (ID 79104): Steelend
Fife Pits: Steelend Mines
OS 6" map, 1st Ed. 1855. Fife Sheet 29 - View
OS 25", 1896. Fifeshire Sheet XXXIII.7 - View
OS 25", 1920. Fifeshire Sheet XXXIII.NE - View
Geological survey map, 1931. Fife & Kinross XXXIII.NE - View

This entry was last updated: 2025-06-11 07:20:40

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