Not sure of the geology around Bowburn, but is it possible that a
'nearby' ingeous intrusion had cooked the coal and they were mining
cinders/coke? The Ordnance Survey recorded Craigman Pit, near New
Cumnock in Ayrshire, as working "Coke and Graphite".
Regards,
Mike Gill
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