An examination of what is left of a row of buildings, probably dating to the early 18th century, that may have been used by miners working in Alva's Silver Glen. As these structural remains do not appear on any Ordnance Survey map, they must have been more or less totally gone, and at ground level, by the mid-19th century. In this video I try to provide as much information as I can in the hope that a team of archaeologists carry out a dig to establish if this was living quarters, what date it was occupied, and if it was indeed related to the mining of silver in Silver Glen. The mining of silver here was carried out in two phases, one in the early 18th century and one in the mid-18th century. During the first phase of mining huge malleable lumps of silver were extracted, and a lot of this was used to fund the 1715 Jacobite rising, as led by the Earl of Mar. After carrying out measurements of the structural remains I follow The Hillfoots Diamond Jubilee Way for a bit towards Tillicoultry.
31 июл 2024
