Straiton No.4 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:

Retail estate

Regional overview:

Mines in the Straiton area

Inclined adit

Serving Pentland Paraffin Oil Works

A substantial mine exploiting the Dunnet Shale.

See Pentland No. 1 & No. 2 Mines 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, apparently showing two mine heads with adits heading south west.

Location & workings at Straiton No.4 mine

Detailed maps

Straiton No.4 Mine - 25" OS map c.1894, courtesy National Library of Scotland

Straiton No.4 Mine - 25" OS map c.1907, courtesy National Library of Scotland

Straiton No.4 Mine - 1:2,500 OS map c.1955, courtesy National Library of Scotland

Straiton No.4 Mine - Aerial, courtesy National Library of Scotland

Drawings

Mining plan, identifying one adit as "No. 4" (British Geological Survey LSP 972 (15231).

Recent images

View looking north, the sign board (centre left) marks the approximate site of No. 4 Pit. July 2012.

View looking west towards site of No. 4 Pit, with Mid-Straiton cottages 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.