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Modern SitesSite Name: St Ninians Fife Earth Project
Country: Scotland County: Fife Type: Modern Stone Circle etc
 Nearest Village: Kelty
Map Ref: NT129919
Latitude: 56.111883N  Longitude: 3.402198W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
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3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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St Ninians Fife Earth Project
St Ninians Fife Earth Project submitted by Creative Commons : Abandoned Earth The rusting pieces of the abandoned Fife Earth Project at Lassodie just outside Kelty. The fife earth project was devised in 2009 to turn the old St Ninians open cast coal mine into a landscaped art project. The project was headed up by famous landscape designer Charles Jencks and the finalised park hoped to provide a huge tourist boost to the area, However, in 2014 the projec... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Anyone who has driven up the M90 motorway, Fife in the last twenty years could hardly have failed to notice the St Ninians open-cast coal mine near Kelty. A landscape transformed and consumed through raw material extraction, technology and human labour. The coloured flecks of jabbing industrial machinery appearing to shrink to insect scale as the vast grey void opened up. In 2003, the international landscape artist and cultural theorist Charles Jencks was commissioned by the mine owners, Scottish Resources Group, to develop a landform proposal to regenerate the area.

Jencks is perhaps best known as an architectural theorist of postmodernism and in Scotland, for landscape design projects such as his own Garden of Cosmic Speculation, the recently completed Crawick Multiverse and smaller scale works at Jupiter Artland (Cells of Life) and The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Landform Ueda).

Jencks coined the project The Scottish World which was based on ideas of the Scottish diaspora and immigration. There was no doubt as to the physical scale of its ambition with four colossal earth mounds representing four continents where Scots had travelled and settled.

Whilst work commenced on the restoration project, and was originally due to complete in 2012, the scheme collapsed in 2013 when Scottish Resources Group went into administration.

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St Ninians Fife Earth Project
St Ninians Fife Earth Project submitted by Flickr : Unearthly Moment I was the only person for as far as the eye could see looking Westward from the highest peak of the abandoned Fife Earth Project. Image copyright: kevinmcnair (Kevin Mcnair), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

St Ninians Fife Earth Project
St Ninians Fife Earth Project submitted by Flickr : 3 Barbed Hill? The Fife Earth Project at the St Ninians Open Cast Site. This was the site of an ambitious project to create a scupture park. A tremendous amount of landscaping has been done and we were eager to see what exciting sculptures had been left on the site. Image copyright: daedmike (Michael Barnes), hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: St Ninians Fife Earth Project by Anonymous on Sunday, 05 April 2020
We have been on the mound that has the slabs of stone laid out specifically with names like Gdańsk, we understood there was a mining connection but would like to know the details, can you please tell us the significance of this please, we couldn’t make up our mind regarding the overall shape, Scotland or Europe, we stay in Kelty and have family who worked in the mines Obviously many years ago.
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Investors' interest in St Ninian's site by Andy B on Wednesday, 30 November 2016
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29th July 2016: It was described as "one of the most exciting public art projects Scotland has ever seen" and was set to transform an ugly hole in the ground next to the M90 at Kelty.

The multi-million pound restoration plans for the St Ninians opencast coal mine centred on turning the area into a major tourist attraction which would bring visitors and money into the village.

World renowned American architect Charles Jencks designed the Fife Earth Project and work started but it was left unfinished when Scottish Coal went bust in 2013.

Three years on and there's a shaft of light at the end of the tunnel with reports of "two serious inquiries" from potential investors.

http://www.centralfifetimes.com/news/kelty/14652042.Investors__39__interest_in_St_Ninian__39_s_site/
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Land art plans for Kelty scrapped by Andy B on Wednesday, 30 November 2016
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21 Oct 2014: THE MULTI-MILLION pound plans to turn a former opencast coal site in Kelty into an iconic landscaped art project have been scrapped before they could be completed.

As part of the restoration of the St Ninian’s site, the project was meant to turn the area – blighted from the coal mining works – into a major tourist attraction which would bring visitors and money into Kelty.

Work had already begun on the attraction, which was dubbed the ‘Fife Earth Project’ and designed by world-renowned architect Charles Jencks (above), but complications arising from Scottish Coal’s liquidation means that the project will not be finished – a disappointing blow and a broken promise to the people of Kelty to whom Jencks dedicated the work.

He told the Press this week, “The facts are that our project was inexpensive, saved the company much money in restoration, celebrated Scotland history and diaspora and would have been completed except that many coal companies went to the wall, including the one who asked me to do this restoration.” Plans for the 665-acre park were announced in 2009 and were originally supposed to include four different-shaped landscape mounds – one conical, one triangular, one rectangular and one horn-shaped – which represented the continents Scotland had influenced in history and the 40 million people of Scots descent overseas.

http://www.dunfermlinepress.com/news/13518268.Land_art_plans_for_Kelty_scrapped/
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Re: St Ninians Fife Earth Project by Andy B on Wednesday, 30 November 2016
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Whilst work commenced on the restoration project, and was originally due to complete in 2012, the scheme collapsed in 2013 when Scottish Resources Group went into administration. The site was subsequently taken over by Hargreaves Resources and an agreement was made with Fife Council that would see a degree of the restoration project completed, in exchange for a licence to extract the remaining coal still to be mined. However, it soon became clear that the project would not be completed according to Jencks’ original design although elements already completed would be kept and maintained.

Despite occasional mutterings in the local press about potential futures for the site, it appears to exist today in a state of limbo ‘officially’ out of bounds to the general public.
We thought we would go and take a look.
https://fifepsychogeography.com/2016/10/20/this-is-not-the-garden-of-cosmic-speculation/
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