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Castlehill No.1 Pit Gartconnel No.2 Pit Garscadden Burn Culvert (Peel Glen Road Inlet) Duntochar Road (shaft)
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Bearsden golf course, Bearsden, Dumbartonshire.
| NGR: | NS 52615 72425 |
| WGS84: | 55.92225, -4.36018 |
| Length: | Not recorded |
| Vert. Range: | 165 m |
| Altitude: | 94 m |
| Geology: | Johnstone Clayband Ironstone |
| Tags: | Mine, Shaft, ManMade, Archaeo, Lost |
| Registry: | second |
Mine (Ironstone), c.1870s.
Shaft to clayband ironstone (sunk post-1857, abandoned pre-1896) now buried below golf course grounds. Bings across abandoned site depicted on 1898 OS map, since re-landscaped as low grassy mounds.
Gartconnel Colliery was in operation in 1873 & 1877, operated by Merry & Cunninghame (same owners as Garscadden Colliery coal & ironstone workings).
"The Johnstone Claybands were worked to a small extent in the Garscadden and Knightswood field. At Garscadden they were wrought (1872-84), under the name of the Lower Clayband, over a considerable area between Castlehill and Townhead. Nowhere else have these ironstones been worked north of the Clyde. " [MacGregor, 1920]
Alternative Names: None recorded.
Notes: Given coordinates & name based on details labelled on 1987 Geol. Survey map (pit not acknowledged on 1912 & 1853 eds). Shown on MRA map, but no BGS GeoIndex entry.
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This entry was last updated: 2026-03-02 10:55:17
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