Fatlips excavation
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Fatlips excavation
Image: © John Kinross Taken: Unknown
This is the old cottage of Fatlips excavated and recorded in 2006 before it was destroyed in the opencast coal extraction process. It appears on Armstrong's map of 1776. It was apparently inhabited up until the Second World War.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.829916
Longitude
-3.150645