Found at Drum Farm, Bonnybridge.
Unknown maker.
Find location would suggest Scottish origins but …
The first 2 letters are damaged but from what is left I believe they represent ‘CE’ and as such I think this stamp should read ‘Celtic’.
(Note – SBH – I also think this brick may be made by the same makers as the MAC Brand bricks).
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Below – A similar stamp on a brick found in Canada.
Found in the Broch Burn, Nitshill by Ian Suddaby. Although this brick is incomplete, it is highly likely that it reads, ‘Celtic’ but it looks like a much earlier version than the other ‘Celtic’ bricks listed on the SBH website. Unknown maker. Find location and stamp may suggest Scottish origins but … Find location may…
Found by Pete Rainville in a creek in the middle of a forest just off a logging road in Ontario, Canada. It is believed this brick may have been manufactured in Scotland by an unknown maker. I also think this brick may be made by the same makers as the MAC Brand bricks. . . .
Vladimir Smirnov writes:- The bricks were found by Eugeny Filinsky in Abkhazia, Gagra city. It is a resort at the coast of the Black Sea. Bricks were found in chimneys and fireplaces during restoration works in the Palace of Duke Alexander Oldenburg (1904). Forth – Roughcastle Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. Mac Brand – Manufacturer unknown…
Found on the Atlas/Etna/Bathville Brickworks sites, Armadale, West Lothian. Unidentified maker. Find location would suggest Scottish origins but … (SBH – Note – Although I still cannot say 100% who manufactured this brick, I am in no doubt who it was manufactured for – Macbeth Brothers, Agents, Importers and Engineers, Bombay, India.) (SBH – Note…
Found by ‘Rig Rat’ on the banks of the Firth of Clyde near Erskine, Glasgow. Unknown maker. Find location and stamp may suggest Scottish origins but … (Note – SBH – I also think this brick may be made by the same makers as the MAC Brand bricks). . .
Found at Carberry Colliery, East Lothian and kindly donated by Nick Basden. Scotia FW & Co. The stamp looks like ‘SG’ but it is definitely ‘SC’ – the tail on the ‘C’ is a fault in the brick. Unidentified maker. The name is Scottish in appearance but its origins are in doubt. Although the Scotia…
The following Scottish bricks were photographed at the Andromeda Botanic Gardens in Barbados by Barney Corrigan. . . . . . Below – Mac Brand – Believed to be Scottish but not confirmed. Below – Starworks, Glenboig. Below – Gartcraig. Below – DB 7232 Karrena 611 / 10A AW – Dykehead Fire Brick Works, Bonnybridge…
The following Scottish bricks were found by Igor Tarasov in Vladivostok, Russia. The bricks were found in ruined furnaces which formed part of the Soviet Army barracks in Vladivostok. Firebricks stamped ‘Boghead’ and ‘Scotia’ and a building brick marked ‘Mac Brand’ The manufacturing origins of the Scotia and Mac Brand are not confirmed but I believe…
Once again thank you to Cris Pasquali for informing of the latest Scottish brick fins as a result of the ongoing “Proyecto La Forestal y sus pueblos” These latest bricks were unearthed at a factory at Villa Guillermina, Argentina. MAC Brand (Presumed Scottish) Brown Paisley Gartcraig Crater BWC (Possibly Scottish)
Scottish bricks found in Santa Felicia, Argentina by Cris Pasquali and colleagues. Mac Brand – which is still unidentified but possibly Scottish Crater Hurll OCTO Possibly ETNA Possibly BWC – which is still unidentified but possibly Scottish Robert Brown Paisley The Dumley brick will be a Lumley and the variation with the castle motif. Below…
