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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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| THE MOAT [SW of Culross] | The Moat The Moat The Moat |
Mr Alexander Luke Mr William Stephen Fullertons Gazetteer |
142 | [Situation] Nearly half a mile S W [South West] of the town of Culross This is the place where the Coals raised in the Colliery at Culross by Sir George Bruce were shipped. It was Insulated at High Water and had a Subterranean Communication with the coal pit. This "Moat" was the Scene of the Tradition recorded in Fullarton's Gazetteer respecting King James the VI when on a hunting excursion, on revisiting his native County, after his accession to the English Crown. The Stone Bulwarks of "The Moat" were washed away by a Violent storm in March 1625, which drowned the Coal & thereby destroyed the Great Coal Pit at Culross. All that now remains is a confused heap of Boulders which are covered at high water but very prominent at Low Water. |
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[Page] 110Parish of Culross -- Sheet 142 No. 8 Trace 2
"Formerly the coalworks of Culross were the most considerable in
Scotland it being ordained by Act of Parliament in 1663 that the Culross
chalder should be the Standard measure for Scotland; and the number
of Salt pans then in use amounted to no less than 50. These works appear
to have been in their most flourishing State in the reign of James VI
a little before and some time after his accession to the Crown of
England. They were then wrought a considerable way under the
sea, or at least where the sea flowed at full tide, and the coals were carried out to be
Shipped by a moat within the Sea mark which had a Subterraneous communication with the Coal
pit. One cause to which the decline of these works once so flourishing is ascribed is a violent storm
which happened the very night on which King James died by which moat and different
parts of the machinery were either greatly damaged or totally destroyed. From this shocK
though they were afterwards wrought partially, they never entirely recovered, and were for
a time, wholly deserted". Old Stat. Acct. vol. [Statistical Account volume] 10 p. [page] 144
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