Whytes Cleugh

aka Whytes Cloegh

Lead Mine

Jan 1st, 2024 from GSG by Buddle-Bot



#4,714
Southern Uplands
Wanlockhead
55.405063, -3.786591
NS 8697 1380
Private Land
400m
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The remains of a beam engine and a series of shafts to the south-west of Wanlock Dod. Whyte’s Cleugh is a small cleugh or Glen and Burn, rising at the foot of Whytes Dod (or Hill). Recorded as a site of finds of rare minerals and the possible exploitation of bedrock gold.