Glencartholm

Glencartholm is a location in Dumfries and Galloway, southern Scotland, along the River Esk. ^[1]

The Glencartholm Volcanic Beds ^[2] contain a Palaeozoic (specifically Carboniferous ^[1] ) fossil fish site of international importance. Discovered in 1879, most of the fossils were removed during the 1930s, but in the 1990s a further site 50 m (160 ft) east, named Mumbie, was excavated. This led to the identification of further fish beds, where over 200 specimens of ray-finned fish were collected, including one possible new species ^[3]

There is also a farmhouse known as Glencartholm, or Glencartholm Farmhouse, which is a listed building ^[4] in the parish of Canonbie, not far from the border with England, ^[5] and near Glencartholm Wood. The farm has an inscription celebrating the defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. ^[6]

References

1. "Glencartholm, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, UK". Mindat.org . Retrieved 24 February 2022.
2. Schram, Frederick R. (1 March 1983). "Lower Carboniferous biota of Glencartholm, Eskdale, Dumfriesshire" . Scottish Journal of Geology. 19 (1): 1–15. Bibcode:1983ScJG...19....1S. doi:10.1144/sjg19010001. ISSN   0036-9276. S2CID   129230047 . Retrieved 24 February 2022.
3. Wood, Margaret (3 August 2018). "Glencartholm revisited: Describing for the first time Stan Wood's discovery and excavation of Mumbie Quarry, adjacent to the important Palaeozoic fossil site of Glencartholm" . Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 108 (1): 47–54. doi:10.1017/S175569101800018X. ISSN   1755-6910. S2CID   134352553 . Retrieved 24 February 2022.
4. "Glencartholm". Canmore. 9 September 2011. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
5. "Glencartholm Farmhouse (LB3505)". Historic Environment Scotland . 1 July 1948. Retrieved 24 February 2022.
6. Knox, Joanne (1 November 2021). "Historic dairy farm with 63.99 acres open to offers over £650,000". Farming Life. Retrieved 24 February 2022.

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