Belhelvie
Taken from above link:
Mining of some sort was an old occupation in Belhelvie parish. The
earliest surviving mentions of gold and silver deposits date from the
seventeenth century, and both Belhelvie and Foveran apparently held these
ores. Two memorandi left, one by Robert Seton noted as 'commonly of
Mexico', and the other by Sir Robert Sibbald as told to Colonel Borthwick,
reveal quite specifically the presence of a gold mine. 'There is a gold
Mine very rich, in a husband toun, called Overhill in the parish of
Belhelvie, that belongs to my Lord Glames, three fathoms, beneath the kyln,
that is at the head of the In-town'. There has not been too much gold
found since and it is unlikely that there will be a gold-rush to Overhill
in the twenty first century!
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