Scotland's Brick Manufacturing Industry

Goodock Fireclay Mine, Morningside, Lanarkshire – Source Kenneth W Sanderson. 1938 – The Morningside Fireclay Company worked the Goodock fireclays known locally as the Watsonhead fireclays from Watsonhead No 1 mine  – started in 1938. 1959 – Watsonhead No 1 mine – closed. 1959 – Watsonhead No 2 mine – opened. 1961 – Watsonhead No 1 mine –…

Found at Manderston near Linlithgow and kindly donated by Nick Basden. Morningside Fireclay Works, Wishaw, Lanarkshire . . . .  

Found at the Coltness Iron Works, Newmains. Morningside Fireclay Works, Wishaw, Lanarkshire . . . .

Found by Gordon Wyle in Broxburn, West Lothian. Morningside Fireclay Works, Wishaw, Lanarkshire . . . .

Found by Eddie Mclean in the Glasgow area. Morningside Fireclay Works, Wishaw, Lanarkshire. . . . .

Found in Glasgow Morningside Fireclay Works, Wishaw, Lanarkshire . . . .

Foundin Falkirk Morningside Fireclay Works, Wishaw, Lanarkshire. . . . . Below – The same stamp on an elongated arch brick.  

Details and photograph have been forwarded by Carlotta Bigagli. Morningside Fireclay Works, Wishaw, Lanarkshire During recent urban archaeological excavations inside an historical palace in Firenze, commissioned by the Provincia di Firenze and directed by the SoprintendenzaArcheologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per la Città Metropolitana di Firenze e le province di Pistoia e Prato. The house…

Found by Willie Guthrie onn the foreshore of Loch Lomond in Balloch Country Part, West Dumbartonshire. Morningside Fireclay Works, Wishaw, Lanarkshire. So does anyone know what Altos stands for? . . .   Below – A near perfect example found in St Petersburg, Russia    

The photos of these bricks were kindly forwarded by Cristina Pasquali an  archaeologist and coordinator of the project , the forest and its people. They were found in Tartagal, Provincia De Santa Fe, Argentina. Facebook page  – (Translation ) – The Forestry Project and Peoples is based in the Centre for the Study of Historical Archaeology, Faculty…