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Mortonhall No.9 Mine

Burdiehouse, Straiton, City of Edinburgh.

Mine (Shale), 19th Century.

Extensive pillar and stall workings in oil shale, beside Burdiehouse Mine (2) that worked the overlying Burdiehouse Limestone. Mine plans suggest that the two sets of working were largely laterally offset rather than directly over/underlying, and that the shale workings extended further SW. Mine mouth site now infilled and occupied by overgrown ground beside Edinburgh Bypass sliproad.

"Inclined adit. Serving Pentland Paraffin Oil Works. A substantial mine, assumed to be Mortonhall No. 9. Shale-field: Burdiehouse and Straiton shale-fields. Mapped by the Ordnance Survey of c.1894, showing the mine in operation, with an adit heading south east." [Scottish Shale]

Alternative Names: None recorded.

Notes: The Dunnet Shale and Burdiehouse Limestone both form part of the West Lothian oil shale sequence.

8 fig. coordinates derived from OS georef' tool.