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Fife preserves an 80-foot pit head and miners' cage from its coal mining past
The Mary Colliery's concrete pit head, known as Big Mary, is one of only two coal mine relics still standing in the Kingdom of Fife.
Why it mattersWith Fife's coal mining industry largely gone, this site gives visitors tangible contact with the equipment of a world that barely exists anymore.
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