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Avonhead Colliery, miners' row is a terrace of workers' housing built to accommodate colliers employed at a coal mine in Lanarkshire, Scotland. The dwelling sits above the Scottish Coal Measures Group, a geological formation laid down during the Moscovian age and comprising mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal seams, ironstone and ferricrete. This underlying strata would have been the principal resource that drove settlement and employment in the locality, with the miners extracting coal from depths below the row itself. The building represents the domestic landscape of industrial Scotland, where housing was constructed in close proximity to extraction sites to minimise workers' travel and maximise efficiency of production.
The miners' row typifies nineteenth and early twentieth-century industrial housing, designed as a compact terrace to house the labour force of Avonhead Colliery. Such dwellings were often modest, built with materials locally available or economically viable for employers. The architectural form reflects contemporary attitudes towards working-class accommodation and the organisation of coal-mining communities across central Scotland.
Avonhead Colliery, miners' row is protected by Historic Environment Scotland under the designation SM9677, recognising its significance as a surviving record of Scotland's coal-mining heritage and the lived experience of industrial workers in Lanarkshire.
Avonhead Colliery, miners' row is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM9677. View the official record →
Avonhead Colliery, miners' row is a terrace of workers' housing built to accommodate colliers employed at a coal mine in Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM9677.
Avonhead Colliery, miners' row is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM9677.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Avonhead Colliery (0.7 km), Thieves Hill, deserted settlement 400m E of (3.5 km), Drumfin, deserted settlement 200m W of (3.7 km).
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Avonhead Colliery, miners' row stands on Scottish Coal Measures Group, bedrock that formed in the Moscovian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.