 The last large deep mine closed in 1961, then in 2000, the opencast mine at Blindwells closed.William Dunbar's poem the "Lament for the Makaris" includes the name "Clerk of Tranent" as a poet, probably of the fifteenth century, citing him as an author of the "Anteris" "of Gawain".Some examples of such works exist but he has not been traced.