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Roman Camp mine No.1
Location 55.914166, -3.486065, Shale-field Pumpherston shale field Dates opened and closed Closed 1918 Owner Broxburn Oil Company Type of working Inclined adit Seams worked Jubilee, Curly, Maybrick and Plain seams of the Pumpherston shale Oil works served Roman Camps Oil Works Current status of site Waste land Background One of a sequence of steeply inclined mines following the outcrop of Pumpherston shales along the western arm of the Pumpherston anticline.
The O.S. map appears to show an adit emerging from the western bank of the Caw Burn, crossing the steep valley on a tressle bridge to reach an elevated staging and screens from where shale could be discharged into standard gauge railway wagons. The range of buildings labelled "No.3" seem likely to be associated with a shaft serving a parallel underground incline.
Substantial re-grading of the area has taken place since closure of the mine and little remains to mark the workings other that retaining walls built beside the Caw Burn.
