Found by Gordon Wyle at Greenhill, Bonnybridge.
Roughcastle Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire.
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The following Scottish bricks were found by Consuelo Bravo Antúnez in the heart of the Atacama Desert, Chile. The Atacama Desert was a huge source of sodium nitrate (saltpetre) which was mined on a large scale until the early 1940s. The UK imported many many shiploads of the saltpetre and it appears they supplied many…
The following bricks were found at Old Manutenção Militar, Beato – Lisbon, Portugal by Rui Ribolhos, Lisbon, Portugal. Empatia Arqueologia LDA. Rui states – I am an archaeologist working in Lisbon at an old nun’s convent from the XVII th century (Convento das freiras Grilas, Beato, Lisboa) transformed into a military facility of baking bread…
This brick is in the possession of Elena Alexeenko. It was found near Taganrog in the Rostov region of Russia. Roughcastle Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. . . . .
Roughcastle Fireclay Mine, Bonnybridge, Falkirk, Stirlingshire. See also the Roughcastle Fireclay Works, Bonnybridge, Falkirk, Stirlingshire Company names(S): Campbell & Co.; Dougall & Sons Dyson Refractories: J. & R. Howie Site names(S): Roughcastle Fireclay works Address: Roughcastle Fireclay Works, Bonnybridge Established: 1889 Ceased: 1964 Founder: J.Campbell Company history: – The site opened as a coal mine…
Found near Yangon, Myanmar by Htin Kyaw. Roughcastle Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. . . . .
Vulcan brick – This has no frog, unlike my own partial example. Campbell & Co, Roughcastle Fireclay Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. This could be an American example as I believe such a marked brick was made there but this is still to be determined. . . .
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…
Many thanks to Cris Pasquali for the following photographs and information. Cris states ” I found these bricks in the Northern part of my city Rosario (Province of Santa Fe) on the coast of the Parana River. From the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, railway, port and industrial activities were developed in the…
The following bricks were found by Benita Bond in Nova Scotia, Canada. All the bricks were found at Lochmans Beach in Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia with the exception of the Dougall brick which was found on Florence Front Beach. Glenboig Union Fireclay Company, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Glenboig Star Fireclay Works, Glenboig, Lanarkshire. Douglas Fireclay Works, Dalry,…
This Forth brick was found and photographed by Ze’ev Erlich and Shay Shemesh. It was found in a ruined furnace or kiln near Sde Ilan, Northern Israel. It was most likely a lime kiln. Roughcastle Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. . . . . .
