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Leadhills lead mines

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Date: 1610-2000
Places:
  • Leadhills, Lanarkshire
Functions, occupations and activities: Mineral extraction > Metal ore extraction
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/C112377 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B20758 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
1745-46: journal
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
MS.15554
2
1716-18: lead trade ledger (Sir William Menzies and Alexander Clark
National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)
3
1610-20th cent: records
Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland
NRAS888
NRA 17684 Hope

See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [53a]
4
1646-61: mining papers (Sir James Hope)
St Andrews University Library
NRAS219
NRA 10987
5
1671-80: mining register
Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections
MS Eng misc e 186
6
c1800-15: ledgers
National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)
GD253/212-14
NRA 13863 Campbell