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Revision as of 10:11, 7 September 2021
Gillespie, M R, Everett, P A, Albornoz-Parra, L J, and Tracey, E A. 2013. A survey of building stone and roofing slate in Falkirk town centre. Nottingham, UK, British geological Survey. (OR/13/015). |
Table A4_1 (below) contains a list (arranged in alphabetical order) of all the quarries that historically produced sandstone building stone within the search area described in section 4 (156 quarries in total). Alternative names for some quarries are placed in brackets. Grid references are fully numeric (i.e. they don’t include the unique two-letter prefixes denoting 100 kilometre squares). ‘Lithostratigraphic unit’ refers to the named sequence of strata in which the quarry is situated. ‘MPA’ denotes the Mineral Planning Authority in which the quarry sits: FAL = Falkirk; FIF = Fife; NLK = North Lanarkshire; STG = Stirling; WLN = West Lothian. All comments in the ‘Notes’ column were sourced from the BGS Database of Mines and Quarries (‘BritPits’), unless stated otherwise. All quarries are currently inactive, and some will be ‘sterilised’ by infilling or flooding. Figure 15 in section 4.2 shows the location of all quarries.
QUARRY NAME | GRID REFERENCE | LOCATION | LITHOSTRATIGRAPHIC UNIT | MPA | NOTES |
Abronhill | 277805, 676075 | Abronhill | Passage Formation | NLK | Pale grey, fine- and medium-grained |
Airdriehead Farm | 275400, 675705 | Carrickstone | Upper Limestone Formation | NLK | In faky sandstone |
Airth Castle | 289690, 686960 | Airth | Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation | FAL | |
Airth Mains | 289850, 687200 | Airth | Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation | FAL | |
Auchenbowie | 280040, 687875 | Auchenbowie | Limestone Coal Formation | STG | Quarry has flaggy sandstone at top |
Auchinbee | 273715, 675830 | Craighalbert | Upper Limestone Formation | NLK | |
Auldshields Bridge | 277045, 671490 | Windyridge | Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation | NLK | |
Avonbridge | 291030, 672990 | Avonbridge | Passage Formation | FAL | Quarries |
Bandominie | 280380, 676590 | Castlecary | Passage Formation | FAL | Quarry with white, somewhat friable sandstone |
Bantaskine (Bantaskine East) | 287410, 679155 | Bantaskine Estate | Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation | FAL | Outcrop of splint coal overlying a line of sandstone quarries (BritPits). Quarry face present c.1864, 'old quarry' c.1899 (OS maps) |
Bath | 297460, 691110 | Bogside | Passage Formation | FIF | White sandstone |
Binny (Binnie) | 305530, 673285 | Uphall | West Lothian Oil Shale Formation | WLN | Engine House' Building Stone; infilled by tipping by 1897; pale yellowish brown, fine
grained sandstone; Binny Sandstone, Hopetoun Member |
Binny Bridge | 305745, 673082 | Ecclesmachan | West Lothian Oil Shale Formation | WLN | Binny Sandstone, Hopetoun Member |
Binny Lodge | 304855, 673160 | Ecclesmachan | West Lothian Oil Shale Formation | WLN | Quarries with reddish brown weathering, soft friable sandstone; Hopetoun Member |
Birchhill (Birkhill) | 296400, 679135 | Birkhill | Passage Formation | FAL | Quarried on a small scale (Cameron) |
Blackcraig (Plean, Black Craig) | 282550, 686115 | Plean | Upper Limestone Formation | STG | Supplying freestone in c.1860 (Hunt). Fine- grained, good quality white sandstone building stone (Hinxman). Building Stone: Bishopbriggs Sandstone (Upper Limestone Group); several large pits; 'Plean Freestone' (BritPits) |
Blackstone | 280580, 685550 | Dunipace | Lower Limestone Formation | FAL | Quarry in black, medium grained silicious sandstone |
Blair | 302270, 689799 | Oakley | Limestone Coal Formation | FIF | Building Stone: Blair Stone; massive white sandstone with fakes, blaes, ironstone and thin
coals |
Bonhard | 304305, 689915 | Carnock | Limestone Coal Formation | FIF | |
Bonnyside | 283800, 680120 | Bonnybridge | Passage Formation | FAL | |
Bordie | 295920, 687000 | Culross | Passage Formation | FIF | |
Bowdenhill (Bowden Hill) | 298247, 674550 | Linlithgow | Upper Limestone Formation | WLN | |
Boxton | 288735, 673520 | Slamannan | Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation | FAL | Flaggy sandstone |
Brand's (Crawbank, Maiden Park) | 299360, 680730 | Bo'ness | Upper Limestone Formation | FAL | |
Bridge Castle | 294445, 670995 | Bridgecastle | Passage Formation | WLN | Sandstone Quarries |
Brightons (Old Brigtons, Brighton) | 293170, 677670 | Brightons | Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation | FAL | Quarry in 40 feet of Brighton Rock sandstone; 'Old Brighton Freestone' (BritPits). In operation c.1845 (Ker). In operation c.1860, 'old quarry' c.1899 (OS maps). |
Broomy Knowes | 301930, 673705 | Linlithgow | West Lothian Oil Shale Formation | WLN | White sandstone, infilled quarry |
Burn Row | 285325, 671580 | Slamannan | Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation | FAL | "Old Quarry' 'fakes & sandstone' |
Burnbrae | 296010, 691420 | Clackmannan | Passage Formation | FIF | White sandstone |
Burnfoot (Cat Craig) | 302290, 681105 | Carriden | Lower Limestone Formation | FAL | |
Cadgers Loan (Cadger’s Loan, Plean) | 282585, 686915 | Plean | Upper Limestone Formation | STG | Coarse and gritty sandstone, often exceeds 60 feet in thickness (Hinxman) |
Callendar House | 290380, 679330 | Callendar Park | Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation | FAL | Used in Falkirk and for the construction of the Canal (Bailey) |
Callendar Park | 289320, 679510 | Callendar Park | Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation | FAL | |
Cameron Knowe | 304950, 676325 | Phipstoun | West Lothian Oil Shale Formation | WLN | Hopetoun Member |
Carbrook | 283700, 685350 | Torwood | Passage Formation | FAL | Sandstone quarry, 20 foot beds |
Carnock Moor (Camock) | 304415, 690970 | Cowstrandburn | Limestone Coal Formation | FIF | Sandstone Quarries'; 'thick-bedded white sandstone'; 'Building stone'; 'flaggy sandstone over massive grey sandstone' |
Castlecary | 278605, 677792 | Castlecary | Passage Formation | NLK | Fine grained, off-white, crossbedded sandstone |
Castleton | 285500, 688175 | Cowie Passage Formation | STG | ||
Cat Craig (Catscraig) | 280700, 689680 | Bannockburn | Limestone Coal Formation | STG | Supplying freestone c.1860 (Hunt) |
Caverns | 295854, 685922 | Longannet | Passage Formation | FIF | |
Caverns Farm | 296345, 685970 | Longannet | Passage Formation | FIF | |
Cockmalane | 290650, 676345 | California | Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation | FAL | Soft, yellow sandstone |
Corsehill | 280115, 688295 | Bannockburn | Limestone Coal Formation | STG | |
Cowie | 283725, 689035 | Berry Hills | Upper Limestone Formation | STG | |
Craig Moss | 283160, 690765 | Fallin | Upper Limestone Formation | STG | Quarry in coarse pebbly grit and four feet of yellow and white, medium-grained, coarsely bedded, massive to flaggy sandstone |
Craigbeg | 282335, 688415 | Plean | Upper Limestone Formation | STG | Supplying freestone c.1860 (Hunt) |
Craigenbuck | 296070, 680105 | Kinneil Kerse | Upper Limestone Formation | FAL | Sandstone quarry; limestone formerly worked |
Craigs | 286100, 687300 | Plean Passage Formation | STG | ||
Cultenhove | 278545, 690135 | Chartershall | Lower Limestone Formation | STG | Largely overgrown but 8 foot of massive medium-grained buff sandstone still exposed |
Dales Wood | 282145, 684910 | Dunipace | Upper Limestone Formation | FAL | Sandstone quarries |
Davidscraig Wood | 285525, 687185 | Plean | Passage Formation | STG | |
Deanfield | 298800, 681115 | Deanfield | Upper Limestone Formation | FAL | |
Denovan | 282431, 683197 | Denny | Upper Limestone Formation | FAL | Massive freestone sandstone and boulder clay top |
Dickson's Wood | 294180, 690440 | Kilbagie | Passage Formation | FIF | 35ft-deep pit, massive, medium-grained, false-bedded white sandstone'; 'boulder clay on coarse grittty false-bedded pale sandstone' |
Doghillock | 281845, 684052 | Denny | Upper Limestone Formation | FAL | Faky sandstone and flags |
Doo Craig | 297695, 691000 | Blairhall | Passage Formation | FIF | Old Quarry', yellow sandstone |
Dougalshole | 289355, 687690 | Airth | Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation | FAL | Quarry in 20 feet of massive false-bedded sandstone |
Drumclair Row | 286655, 671575 | Slamannan | Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation | FAL | |
Drumshangie | 277960, 668740 | Drumshangie Moss | Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation | NLK | 'Old Quarry' by 1899 |
Dullatur | 274120, 676750 | Dullatur | Upper Limestone Formation | NLK | Quarry in 30 feet (visible above water level) of Bishopbriggs Sandstone Freestone |
Dunmore | 283875, 688475 | Cowie | Upper Limestone Formation | FAL | Building stone: Cowie Rock, Dunmore Sandstone ; 'Quarry now largely filled with waste from colliery' |
Dunmore Icehouse | 288170, 688980 | Airth | Passage Formation | FAL | Massive white sandstone |
Dunmore Park | 288010, 688720 | Dunmore | Passage Formation | FAL | |
Dunmore Park Farm | 288425, 689035 | Airth | Passage Formation | FAL | Massive false-bedded sandstone with plants |
Dunmore Wood | 288105, 688330 | Airth | Passage Formation | FAL | Massive sandstone; 8 foot beds (BritPits). Supplying freestone and flagstone c.1860, operated by Tait & Crighton, Falkirk (Hunt) |
East Kerse Mains | 297430, 680295 | Kinneil Kerse | Upper Limestone Formation | FAL | |
East Luscar | 305240, 689880 | Gowkhall | Lower Limestone Formation | FIF | Hardsandstone at least two feet thick, baked Blaes 2 feet, dolostone at least 8 feet; chilled edge |
Easterton | 280335, 686445 | Plean | Lower Limestone Formation | STG | Overgrown quarries of grey, medium-grained, flaggy sandstone; sandstone waste present |
Eastfield | 289985, 687370 | Airth | Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation | FAL | Sandstone quarries |
Fannyside Muir | 278975, 673895 | Palacerigg | Passage Formation | NLK | |
Fordel | 294720, 685785 | Longannet | Passage Formation | FIF | |
Gartincaber | 282705, 685865 | Plean | Upper Limestone Formation | STG | Quarries; sandstone quarries, 3 feet of medium grained sandstone |
Gartwhinnie | 282005, 687215 | Plean | Limestone Coal Formation | STG | Holes for sandstone; 'coarse, gritty sandstone'; 'blocks of pale, fine-grained sandstone seen'; "Old Quarry'; 'Quarry in 20 feet of sandstone' |
Gartwhinnie Main | 282075, 687285 | Plean | Limestone Coal Formation | STG | Main quarry in 20 feet of massive, flaggy, cross-bedded sandstone |
Glassiebarns | 305397, 690805 | Gowkhall | Lower Limestone Formation | FIF | Sandstone quarries |
Glen Arden | 281952, 678335 | Greenhill | Passage Formation | FAL | |
Glenhead | 279260, 675480 | Abronhill | Passage Formation | NLK | False-bedded white sandstone |
Glenhead Wood | 279065, 675580 | Abronhill | Passage Formation | NLK | |
Gowkhall | 304790, 689240 | Gowkhall | Lower Limestone Formation | FIF | Old Quarries'; 'no Limestone, all sandstone debris' |
Graham | 289635, 687725 | Airth | Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation | FAL | |
Gray Craigs | 304005, 687265 | Cairneyhill | Lower Limestone Formation | FIF | Freestone |
Greenhill | 281480, 686355 | Plean | Limestone Coal Formation | STG | |
Haining | 295493, 676948 | Maddiston | Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation | FAL | Supplying Freestone c.1860 (Hunt) |
Haircraigs | 281285, 681055 | Head of Muir | Upper Limestone Formation | FAL | Overgrown quarry in false-bedded white sandstone |
Hangingside | 303995, 673875 | Ecclesmachan | West Lothian Oil Shale Formation | WLN | Old quarry grassed and part filled by fragments of sandstone'; Hopetoun Member |
Hilderston | 297950, 671420 | Torphichen | Limestone Coal Formation | WLN | Sandstone quarry, freestone |
Hill of Kinnaird | 287020, 685170 | Stenhousemuir | Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation | FAL | |
Hillhouse | 301130, 675300 | Linlithgow | Lower Limestone Formation | WLN | Quarry in 50-60 feet of freestone sandstone succeeded by blaes, sandstone and mudstone |
Howierigg | 284560, 678900 | Roughcastle | Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation | FAL | Sandstone quarries, massive beds |
Inzievar Wood | 303165, 688363 | Oakley | Limestone Coal Formation | FIF | |
Jenny Lind | 279575, 679995 | Longcroft | Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation | FAL | Yellow sandstone |
Kincardine (Sands) | 294450, 686400 | Longannet | Passage Formation | FIF | Building Stone: Passage Formation Sandstone |
Kingscavil (Linlithgow) | 302720, 676430 | Kingscavil | West Lothian Oil Shale Formation | WLN | Quarry linked to Union Canal; in 60 feet of hard massive sandstone; Building Stone: Kingscavil Stone |
Kinneil | 297000, 679130 | Birkhill | Passage Formation | FAL | Sandstone outcrop |
Kinningars Park | 301170, 681140 | Bo'ness | Limestone Coal Formation | FAL | Quarry in pale brown and yellow, fine grained sandstone with faky partings; rooty sandstone, partly micaceous, ironstained in part' |
Kirkbrae Wood | 299445, 686205 | Culross | Upper Limestone Formation | FIF | Innacessible |
Kirkton | 289600, 683940 | Carronshore | Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation | FAL | Quarry in 3 metres of sandstone under 2 metres of drift |
Langlands | 282575, 685260 | Plean | Limestone Coal Formation | STG | Sandstone quarries |
Larbert Bridge | 285620, 681955 | Larbert | Passage Formation | FAL | |
Lathallan | 294040, 677565 | Rumford | Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation | FAL | Opened c.1845, white sandstone, hard and durable (Ker) |
Loanhead | 305680, 690450 | Gowkhall | Limestone Coal Formation | FIF | Dark grey sandstone and thin shale |
Lochcote | 297535, 673950 | Torphichen | Passage Formation | WLN | Old quarry in 4 feet of soft sandstone with shales above and below; 'rather soft whitish sandstone false-bedded fine & felspathic'; 'about 12ft grit with sandy fakes & grit band above' |
Lochdrum | 281809, 678149 | Greenhill | Passage Formation | FAL | Quarried on a small scale (Cameron) |
Longannet | 294990, 685670 | Longannet | Passage Formation | FIF | Building Stone: Passage Formation Sandstone |
Maddiston (Quarrelhead) | 293835, 676600 | Maddiston | Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation | FAL | Brown sandstone (BritPits). Quarry in operation as early as 18th century; in operation c.1865 and c.1899, marked 'Quarry Disused' c.1922 (OS Maps) |
Maiden Park | 299270, 680805 | Bo'ness | Upper Limestone Formation | FAL | Supplied stone for Bo'ness Town Hall c.1907 (Cameron) |
Manuelrig (Mannelrig) | 293822, 676708 | Maddiston | Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation | FAL | Supplying Freestone c.1860 (Hunt) |
Midglen | 288300, 677770 | Glen Village | Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation | FAL | |
Muiravonside | 295490, 676955 | Maddiston | Passage Formation | FAL | Infilled |
Muirhead | 275280, 676575 | North Muirhead | Upper Limestone Formation | NLK | Quarries in 30 feet of freestone; 'yellow, pebbly freestone' |
Muirhead Glen | 277235, 671950 | Windyridge | Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation | NLK | |
Muirhouses | 301955, 680380 | Muirhouses | Limestone Coal Formation | FAL | |
Muirpark | 281910, 689610 | Bannockburn | Limestone Coal Formation | STG | |
Muirside | 302094, 689805 | Oakley | Limestone Coal Formation | FIF | Sandstone with 'fakes, blaes, Ironstone and thin coals' |
Myot Hill (High Myothill) | 278100, 682340 | Fankerton | Lower Limestone Formation | FAL | Quarries in mainly sandstone with ripple- laminations at top 'baked sediments, mainly sandstone; ripple-laminated in upper part' |
Netherwood | 276655, 677945 | Castlecary | Upper Limestone Formation | NLK | Quarry in 5 metres of yellow medium-grained sandstone ; 'Freestone, grey, medium grained, current-bedded |
Newmills | 301722, 686358 | Newmills | Limestone Coal Formation | FIF | |
Oatridge | 304620, 673515 | Ecclesmachan | West Lothian Oil Shale Formation | WLN | Yellowish weathering sandstone; Hopetoun Member |
Old Philpstoun | 305800, 677730 | Phipstoun | West Lothian Oil Shale Formation | WLN | Hopetoun Member |
Pamphellgoat Wood | 282395, 683630 | Denny | Upper Limestone Formation | FAL | |
Pardovan | 303955, 677360 | Phipstoun | West Lothian Oil Shale Formation | WLN | Hopetoun Member |
Parkhill | 292490, 678790 | Redding | Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation | FAL | |
Plean House | 282570, 686550 | Plean | Upper Limestone Formation | STG | |
Pleanmill | 285585, 686670 | Plean | Passage Formation | STG | |
Polmaise (Cowie) | 283650, 689150 | Cowie | Upper Limestone Formation | STG | Infilled; 50 feet of massive, fine-grained sandstone; infilled; Building stone: Cowie Rock |
Porterside | 301784, 676621 | Linlithgow | Lower Limestone Formation | WLN | |
Quarryhead | 289190, 676150 | Sheildhill | Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation | FAL | |
Quarter House | 281010, 684730 | Dunipace | Upper Limestone Formation | FAL | |
Rashiehill | 277675, 681345 | Banknock | Limestone Coal Formation | FAL | Quarry in faky sandstone |
Ravenswood | 275060, 674420 | Seafar | Upper Limestone Formation | NLK | Freestone |
Rhynd House | 304316, 691483 | Saline | Limestone Coal Formation | FIF | |
Righead | 280450, 676330 | Castlecary | Passage Formation | FAL | |
Rowan Tree Burn (Bonnyside) | 284225, 680110 | Bonnybridge | Passage Formation | FAL | Sandstone quarries, massive beds |
Seggieholm | 279790, 689110 | Bannockburn | Limestone Coal Formation | STG | Quarry in sandstone and blaes |
Shaw Hill | 301750, 687230 | Culross | Limestone Coal Formation | FIF | |
Shieldhill | 290830, 676955 | California | Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation | FAL | Quarry in faky and fine-bedded sandstone |
Slacks | 274285, 680245 | Banton | Limestone Coal Formation | NLK | Quarry in fine-grained, cross-bedded sandstone with silty laminations |
Smithy Wood | 286170, 687050 | Plean | Passage Formation | STG | |
Snabhead | 280510, 688790 | Bannockburn | Limestone Coal Formation | STG | Quarry in fine-grained, massive sandstone with thin faky bands, 6 - 8 feet of flaggy sandstone at top |
South Bantaskine (Bantaskine) | 287160, 679115 | Bantaskine Estate | Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation | FAL | "Old Quarries'; 'outcrop of splint coal overlying a line of sandstone quarries' |
Springvale | 281480, 686745 | Plean | Limestone Coal Formation | STG | |
Standalane | 287475, 678855 | Glen Village | Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation | FAL | |
Staylee | 277030, 671015 | Windyridge | Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation | NLK | |
Stockbridge | 278490, 689155 | Bannockburn | Limestone Coal Formation | STG | Soft, coarse sandstone |
Tapitlaw | 301250, 689790 | Comrie | Limestone Coal Formation | FIF | Quarry on margin between sandstone and limestone |
Thorneydyke | 282090, 684550 | Dunipace | Upper Limestone Formation | FAL | Quarry working mapped sandstone |
Tod's Mill | 296490, 678710 | Birkhill | Passage Formation | FAL | |
Tulliallan Castle | 294225, 688115 | Kincardine | Passage Formation | FIF | |
Tulliallan Farm | 293880, 690030 | Kilbagie | Passage Formation | FIF | |
Upper Kinneil | 297285, 679115 | Birkhill | Upper Limestone Formation | FAL | Small sandstone quarries, massive beds |
Viaduct | 296775, 678580 | Birkhill | Passage Formation | FAL | Sandstone quarries, massive beds |
Viewfield (Bantaskine East) | 287735, 679145 | Bantaskine Estate | Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation | FAL | Quarries |
West Binny | 303490, 672495 | Uphall | West Lothian Oil Shale Formation | WLN | |
Wester Clashies | 294845, 690635 | Whitehills | Passage Formation | FIF | 20ft white medium grained massive sandstone' |
Wester Craigend | 276985, 690615 | Cambusbarron | Lower Limestone Formation | STG | Old quarry, baked sandstone with fakes below' |
Westerton | 283185, 690115 | Cowie Upper Limestone Formation | STG | Quarries in over 3 feet of yellow, fine grained sandstone |