Crossapol (Island of Coll)
In “The (Old) Statistical Account” a lead mine is stated to occur at
Crosspol, Vol X 1794 p 400. According to Macculloch, “The Western Isles
of Scotland” Vol I, 1819 p 68, the ore occurs as a narrow string of
“steel-grained” ore lying in a fissure which is terminated by the sea. He
also states that the vein has not been worked.
I copied this from Mem Geol Surv. Vol XVII The Lead, Zinc, Copper and Nickel
Ores of Scotland. 1921
“The Statistical Account” account, both old and new is available on the web
at:
http://www.edina.ed.ac/uk/statacc
Cheers - Tony Oldham [Your Man in the Outer Hebrides]
>From: "D.R.Poyner" <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: "The mining-history list." <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Lead mine on Coll
>Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 10:06:26 +0100
>
>Does anyone know where trials for lead were made on Coll in the Inner
>Hebrides in the 18th Century? Boswell mentions this in his "Journal of a
>tour to the Hebrides", 1774 and implies it was somewhere in the south
>of the island.
>
>David Poyner
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