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Cruachan Road, GLASGOW, G61 4LA

At the junction with Sidlaw Road.

Approaching the junction with Craigmore Road.

The burn runs through Baljaffray, between Grampian Way to the north; and Ochil Road and Cruachan Road to the south.

At the junction with Cruachan Road.

The main street through South Baljaffray, which follows a roughly oval route through the district.

The Manse Burn runs through Baljaffray, between Grampian Way (behind the photographer); and Ochil Road and Cruachan Road (in the distance).

A cul-de-sac off Grampian Way.

They overlook an area of cut grass, together with trees and scrub around the Manse Burn.

This ordinary-looking, rather overgrown burn is the site of a great geological discovery in the early 1980s. In 1981, Stan Wood, who lived nearby, was investigating the rocks in the Manse Burn in his spare time. Stan worked in the Hunterian Museum at the University of Glasgow at the time as a geological technician and realised that the Carboniferous age rocks in the burn were special. He discovered some very interesting fossils and as a result the Hunterian Museum obtained permission from the local council to mount an excavation. During 1982 a systematic excavation of the site uncovered a wide variety of extremely well-preserved fossils, particularly shrimps and fish, including what is now known as Akmonistion zangerli, but is better known as the 'Bearsden Shark'. The specimen of the first complete example is on display in the Hunterian Museum. The site is now a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). See Image Stan Wood later became a professional fossil dealer and opened Mr Wood's Fossils Image in Edinburgh.