Scottish shale Scottish shale

Boghead No.5 pit

Parish:
Bathgate, Linlithgowshire
Local authority:
West Lothian
Opened:
by 1855
Closed:
by 1875
Current status of site:
Mounds of waste, sheltered by pine trees, survive at the pithead site
Regional overview:
Mines in the Boghead coal

A pit on the Boghead estate, 10 fathoms deep to the Boghead gas coal and ironstone.