Found Seafield, Edinburgh
Bourtreehill Fireclay Works, Dreghorn, Ayrshire .
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Below are 3 similar brickmarks but I have included them here for the reasons given below ( I have not created individual pages for these bricks as the marks are basically the same)
Below – unglazed very narrow brick being only 1 1/2″ deep.
Below Double bullnose on the brick end and glazed white on all sides.
Below – Double bullnose on either end and is oversized as it is 4″ deep.
Below – The same stamp on a glazed beaded brick
Below – The same stamp on a salt glazed double beaded brick.
This brick was found by Jan -Olof Bergman in Sweden. J-O states “Last summer I made a very interesting find. I found a brick with the inscription “Bourtreehill Kilmarnock”. It was found at a dumpsite for ballast in the little harbour of Furuögrund (approx. 500 miles north of Stockholm), where there was a big sawmill…
Photographed by Martin Sneddon in the Ayrshire area. I am not in possession of this example. There may also be another word stamped above Warrix but it is unclear. Warrix Fire Clay Works, Irvine, North Ayrshire. . . .
Found by Tucker Kennedy in the Ayrshire. This is a paver or byre block and it is salt glazed. Bourtreehill Fireclay Works, Dreghorn, Ayrshire. . . . .
17/08/1894 – Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald – … A new coal-pit is being sunk at Warrix, near Irvine, by the Bourtreehill Coal and Fire Clay Coy., and the sinkers have reached the coal. Miners were employed to take it out from the bottom of the shank. This was done, and it is said the coal…
Found Glasgow. Bourtreehill Fireclay Works, Dreghorn, Ayrshire . . . .
Found at Auchenmade, Ayrshire and kindly donated by Jim Archibald. Bourtreehill Fireclay Works, Dreghorn, Ayrshire . . . .
Found by Urban Östlund who states ” the brick was found in a storehouse for paper or pulp which was destroyed in a fire on the 4th of August 1955 and that was the end of the paper manufacturing in Furuögrund Bourtreehill Fireclay Works, Dreghorn, Ayrshire. . . .
Bourtreehill Fireclay Works, Dreghorn, Ayrshire. Canmore 23/12/1871 – Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald – Fire clay goods. Composition and fire bricks now on sale here. Bourtreehill Fire Clay Works by Irvine. 27/10/1871. 1872 – James Findlay, Bourtreehill Coal Co and Fire Clay Manufacturers, Dreghorn, Irvine, Kilmarnock. 21/03/1874 – Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald – Reference made to…
Found at Bourtreehill Fireclay Works, Dreghorn Bourtreehill Fireclay Works, Dreghorn, Ayrshire. . . . .
Found at Bourtreehill Fire Clay Works, Drummuir Farm, Ayrshire. This is a piece of broken water or sewer pipe. Bourtreehill Fireclay Works, Dreghorn, Ayrshire. . . . Below – This is a section of wall coping still in place on top of a wall separating the road from the Bourtreehill Fireclay Works and it bears the…
