Mortonhall No.10 mine

Former parish and county:

Parish of Liberton, Edinburghshire

Local authority:

City of Edinburgh

Ownership:

Clippens Oil Co. Ltd. (1878)

Clippens Oil Co. Ltd. (1893)

Seams worked:

Dunnet Shale

Closed:

1900

Current status of site:

Mine site returned to agriculture, foundations of winding engine house? survive

Regional overview:

Mines in the Straiton area

Inclined adit

Serving Pentland Paraffin Oil Works

The most northerly mine working the Straiton shale-field, located adjacent to the mines and quarries of the Burdiehouse Lime Works.

See Pentland No. 1 & 2 for an overview of shale mining in the Straiton area.

Shale-field: Burdiehouse and Straiton shale-fields.

Mapped by the Ordnance Survey of c.1894, showing the mine in production, and suggesting an adit heading south east.

Location & workings at Mortonhall No.10 mine

Detailed maps

Mortonhall No.10 Mine - 25" OS map c.1894, courtesy National Library of Scotland

Mortonhall No.10 Mine - 25" OS map c.1907, courtesy National Library of Scotland

Mortonhall No.10 Mine - 1:2,500 OS map c.1958, courtesy National Library of Scotland

Mortonhall No.10 Mine - Aerial, courtesy National Library of Scotland

Recent images

Site of the enginehouse? of No. 10 Pit marked by a mound of masonry and rubble. July 2012.

Approach road to Burdiehouse Lime Works, with surviving quarry house, No. 10 Pit would have been centre right of this image. July 2012.

July 2012.

View towards the mound on the site of No. 10 Pit, with Arthur's seat and Salisbury Crags in the background. July 2012.

External references

Coal Authority Mine Abandonment Catalogue No. 5913, showing workings in the Dunnet, Broxburn and Fells Shales from Straiton No. 3, 4, 7, 8; Mortonhall No. 9, 10, Pentland No. 1 , 2 and Oakbank, abandoned in 1900.