At 00:02 20/03/04 +0000, Alan Campbell wrote:
>I am very interested in early coal
>mining in Central Scotland, where I come from, and know that on the
>Forth estuary, almost as far upstream as Clackmannan, where the salinity
>is questionable, a great deal of small coal was used in the seemingly
>inefficient salt pans.
Alan,
For a summary of the use of coal in salt production, see Hatcher, John. The
History of the British Coal Industry, Vol. I, Before 1700: Towards the Age
of Coal, (Oxford, 1993), pp. 430-8 where you will find references to work
on the Scottish industry of the 16th/17th centuries.
Peter
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