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Cloberhill No.2 / No.3 Pits

Crusader Avenue, High Knightswood, City of Glasgow (Dumbartonshire).

Mine (Ironstone), ca. 1880s.

Neighbouring shafts No.2 & No.3, both of which have been treated & buried below an obvious patch of grassland along Crusader Ave. The site is fenced-off & was the site of two residential buildings which were demolished due to the presence of the shafts. No.2 Pit was sunk to the Garibaldi Clayband Ironstone at 128m, & the Garscadden blackband was also worked at a depth of 99m.

No.3 Pit accessed workings in the the Upper Garscadden Blackband Ironstone at 54 fms (& Gas Coal at 27 fms?), and a small-scale area of workings in the California Clayband Ironstone (surveyed 1882) to the NW via a road in the blackband ironstone. The ore was wrought by the longwall method.

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Alternative Names: Cloberhill No.2 Pit, Cloberhill No.3 Pit

Notes: "Residents living near two old coal mines which caused five garages to collapse say remedial building work is making their lives hell. Crusader Avenue, in Knightswood, has been closed for almost a year after two disused, 500ft deep mine shafts were discovered under the street. Residents from four homes at risk of collapse were evacuated immediately. The Coal Authority closed the road and began demolishing the houses at the end of last year... Matthew Rowton, project engineer with the Coal Authority said workers had to take action quickly when they realised there were two mine shafts under Crusader Avenue. He said homes had collapsed into the mines before, in 1947, but there were no official records of how it happened... "The northern shaft is filled but the southern one is deeper than we thought and is taking longer," he said." [Glasgow Times, 2012)]