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Hilderston or
Hilderstone in West Lothian, Scotland, was the site of the
discovery of a vein of
silver in 1606 and a
mining operation that
attracted international...
- In 1606 a
promising deposit of
silver was
found on Hamilton's land at
Hilderston near Bathgate. For a time,
Hamilton worked the mine,
employing the English...
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Codrus Cottage,
above Wanlock Water.
Silver was
discovered on
lands at
Hilderston near
Bathgate in 1607. The
prospector Bevis Bulmer and
Thomas Foulis opened...
- agricultural. In the way of
heavy industry there was a
silver mine at
Hilderston near Cairnpapple, a
cotton mill at Blackburn,
paper mills at Linlithgow...
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monks of
Newbattle Abbey in 1327. In 1606
silver ore was
found at
nearby Hilderston, in the
shadow of
Cairnpapple Hill, by a
prospecting collier,
Sandy Maund...
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Pineda in 1519). 1608 – A
newly nationalized silver mine in
Scotland at
Hilderston, West
Lothian is re-opened by
Bevis Bulmer. 1639 –
William Coddington...
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lands at
Hilderston near
Bathgate in 1607.
Bevis Bulmer and
Thomas Foulis opened a
silver mine
called "God's Blessing". The site at
Hilderston was developed...
- King
James I. May 8 – A
newly nationalized silver mine in
Scotland at
Hilderston, West
Lothian is re-opened by
Bevis Bulmer. May 14 – The
Protestant Union...
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royal commissioner to
investigate the
controversial new
silver mine at
Hilderston in
January 1608. In 1609
Doubleday and
Knyvett were
given a
grant of "keeping...
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because of
their east-west alignment, and are
dated to
around 500 to 1000.
Hilderston in the
valley to the east was the site of a
large but short-lived mining...
