the standard works on Scottish salt production include
Whatley, C.A. The Scottish salt industry 1570 - 1850. Mercat Press:
Whatley, C.A. 1977 The Ayrshire salt industry, c. 1707 - 1879. Scottish
Industry History 1, p. 23.
Whatley, C.A. 1982 An early eighteenth century Scottish saltwork: Arran, c.
1710 - 1753. Industrial Archaeology Review 6(2), 89 - 101.
Whatley, C.A. 1984 The salt industry and its trade in Fife and Tayside.
University of Dundee Library: Publication Abertary Historical Soc. 22 :
small coal was almost valueless so its was economically viable to boil
seawater to make salt
the same occurred on Tyneside see Ellis, Joyce. A BOLD ADVENTURER: THE
BUSINESS FORTUNES OF WILLIAM COTESWORTH, C. 1668-1726. Northern History 1981 17:
117-132.
J Ellis 'Decline & fall of the Tyneside salt industry 1660-1790. Econ Hist
Rev (2nd ser) 33 . 1980 ,45
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