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. 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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