Near the upper end of the old road from Carluke, it passes between large piles of tree-covered mining waste on each side.
From the late 1700s, numerous areas of Lanarkshire were supplying raw materials for the emerging heavy industry of Glasgow. There was a lot of coal taken from surface quarrying and shallow mines. Iron ore (the old books call it ironstone) was quarried for the foundries and steel mills of Glasgow and North Lanarkshire. And limestone was quarried and baked in kilns to make lime, which was used in cement and to improve the productivity of the peaty (acidic) soil of area farms.
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