Scottish shale Scottish shale

Boghead No.8 pit

Parish:
Bathgate, Linlithgowshire
Local authority:
West Lothian
Opened:
post 1855
Closed:
c.1870
Current status of site:
In grazed lands, with traces of the bing still apparent
Regional overview:
Mines in the Boghead coal

Pit in the Boghead estate, to the Boghead gas coal at 42 fathoms.