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Avonhead Colliery is a coal mining site located in Lanarkshire, Scotland, dating from the industrial period. The colliery represents the exploitation of coal resources that became increasingly significant to the Scottish economy from the eighteenth century onwards. The site preserves evidence of mining infrastructure and activity characteristic of early industrial coal extraction in the Lanarkshire coalfield, a region that developed into one of Scotland's major centres of coal production during the nineteenth century.
Avonhead Colliery is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM9675. View the official record →
Avonhead Colliery is a coal mining site located in Lanarkshire, Scotland, dating from the industrial period. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM9675.
Avonhead Colliery 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 SM9675.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Avonhead Colliery, miners' row (0.7 km), Drumfin, deserted settlement 200m W of (3.9 km), Thieves Hill, deserted settlement 400m E of (4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Avonhead Colliery's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Avonhead Colliery stands on Scottish Coal Measures Group, bedrock that formed in the Moscovian. The rock here is mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, coal, ironstone and ferricrete.