The whinstone quarries of Messrs . King & Co . employed a considerable number of men in 1951, but even then the quarries were almost worked out.
22.
"' Elderslie Rock "'is a geological intrusion of hard whinstone rock which extends across and beneath the River Clyde near Glasgow, Scotland.
23.
Near the edge of the Balmaclellan churchyard there is a rough uninscribed whinstone pillar that looks like an ancient monument, and is locally said to mark the grave of a witch.
24.
The building seems to have been constructed from an extension of an existing cottage, a second floor being added using sandstone, rather than whinstone, probably taken from the demolished Lambroughton End farm.
25.
The Parkend Quarry produced'Osmond Stone'which as a form of whinstone was very heat resistant and was used in ovens, furnace linings, etc . The Wand House was located near to the Master Gott.
26.
"' Whindust "'is a local name used in Scotland and the North of England referring to fine-grained grit or dust resulting as a by product from the grinding and breaking of Whinstone.
27.
In doing so, Stenson ignored an old miner's dictum of the day, " No coal below stone ", and sank his shaft through a layer of'Greenstone'or'Whinstone'to the coal below.
28.
A number of small whinstone quarries were also present in the area, such as at Townhead of Lambroughton on the 1858 OS . The area is later marked as a fox covert and the old road down from Floors ran beside it.
29.
It consisted of some villages ( Hardgate, Faifley, Duntocher, Dalmuir, Old Kilpatrick ), farms and estates, with some small scale mining operations ( coal, limestone and whinstone ), several cotton mills and some small boatbuilding yards.
30.
During an excavation in the Roman Thermae of Heerlen a whinstone was found, pointing to M . Sattonius Iucundus ( or Marcus Sattonius, possibly also Marcus Sattonius Jucundus ) as restorer of the Thermae in the 3rd century, the stone explains he did this as a debt to Fortuna.
