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Arran Industry - Coal (TCC6V)
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| Arran Industry - Coal (TCC6V) |
Arran Industry - Coal by Kintore.
In United Kingdom
Posted: 6/17/08
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270
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7/30/10 05:10
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One of a series of caches that commemorate historical industrial activities on the Isle of Arran. This cache container is a 750ml tub hidden inside an old limestone mine. Each cache contains information that you will need to find the bonus cache GC10VH5 Arran Industry - Quarry; you will have to look on other listings to find all the GeoCaches.
At Laggan on the northeast coast of Arran an attempt was made by Anne hamilton, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton to exploit the Carboniferous coal deposits for small scale industry. In 1708 she comissioned salters from Saltcoats and Bowness carried out trial salt making. In 1710 a salt pan (like a giant riveted iron wok) was manufactured at Dalkieth and transported in sections to Arran by cart and then by ship from Kelvin Port.
The coal seam was worked by a series of bell pits to provide the fuel to evaporate the seawater which was pumped into the saltworks which still stands in ruins at the head of a narrow geo. Several bell pits are still exposed, the most prominent of which is found at the above coordinates. The pit is 9m deep and has taken the lives of unwary livestock in the past. This pit was explored by cave divers in 1998 and tunnel with pit props intact was found running inland alond the main coal seam. Unfortunately the enterprise was never a great success and by the mid 1700s the saltworks were abandoned after a series of wet summers which diluted the salt concentration in the feedstock.
To find the cache you need to visit these two locations:
- 55 42.705 North, 5 14.390 West, this is the site of the abandoned Cock Farm, birthplace of former PM Harold McMillan's grandfather, Daniel McMillan. The farm was abandoned in 1911 but on one of the quoins at the northeast corner is another date 18AB.
- 55 42.581 North, 5 13.347 West, at this location is evidence of another former Arran Industry and a very prominent numeral C.
- 55 (A)2.(6-C)(B)(B) North, 5 (13+C).(A+3)(B)(C) West, the cache location close to another smaller coal seam with was worked by local people before the saltworks was built.
Once you have found the cache yiou may wish to visit the giant centipede trackway which can be found on a flat rock surface on the south side of Laggan Harbour at 55 42.684 North, 5 13.765 West, and looks like two narrow tyre tracks about 35cm apart running across the rock surface.
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