North Medrox
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of around 20 objects from a limekiln to the north-east of North Medrox Farmstead, Lanarkshire, which date from about 1800 to 1898. This collection represents an assemblage of finds from the 1995 excavation of a stone-built vertical limekiln, undertaken in advance of the construction of the Loch Lomond Water Supply Scheme. These finds include 12 white-glazed ceramic sherds, three stoneware pottery sherds, a clay pipe stem, a green glass sherd, two pieces of oyster shells and samples of a vitrified wall face. The kiln is described as a Skinner’s Simple Type I kiln, with a single bowl, drawl-hole and vent. The vent is flanked by two buttresses that splay out at an angle. The kiln was probably in use from the first half of the 19th century but was disused by 1858.
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