Bits of Shale at Field Edge near Ecclesmachan
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Bits of Shale at Field Edge near Ecclesmachan
Image: © Ian Dodds Taken: 12 Dec 2020
Just put this picture up as there are so few obvious traces round here of how massively industrial this area once was - brick works, clay pits, quarries, shale mines, and railways and tramways criss-crossing all over the place. There is a detailed 1908 geological OS map on the National Library's unrivalled website, which is pretty interesting viewing.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.939027
Longitude
-3.506415