Found Roughcastle Fire Clay Works, Bonnybridge
Roughcastle Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire.
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Below- a very similar stamp on an arch brick found in Bathgate.
Below – A very similar stamp on a bullnose brick found at Roughcastle by Gordon Wyle.
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. . . . .
Found near Yangon, Myanmar by Htin Kyaw. Roughcastle Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. . . . .
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 by Gordon Wyle at Greenhill, Bonnybridge. Roughcastle Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. . . . .
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. . . . . .
Forth bricks found in Zikhron Ya’akov, Israel by Tal Ben Zion. Roughcastle Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. . . . . . . Below – Google map of the general area of the find site.
Photographed by Angela Henry. These bricks line a fireplace at Angela’s house in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The house was built c. 1960. Roughcastle Firebrick Works, Bonnybridge, Stirlingshire. . . . . .
Found by Craig Muirhead on 17/09/2012. Craig is a keen scuba diver and was diving on the wreck of the SS Politician. She lies just off Calbhaigh Rock in the Sound of Eriskay, Scotland in very shallow water. The brick was found in one of the ship’s boilers and there were several other ‘Forth’ bricks…
