whinstone

A whinstone quarry was located to the east of the dwelling.

The beach has a whinstone reefs and the sand is a ruddy gold color.

The castle sits on the highest point of the island, a whinstone hill called Beblowe.

Another whinstone quarry and limekiln was on the road up to Wardlaw.

In Scotland quartz-dolerite is commonly known as whin or whinstone.

The castle is built from whinstone with freestone corners.

The estate sits on whinstone and a small quarry nearby became an ornamental lake.

The older examples were often made of stone, such as granite, whinstone, sandstone or limestone.

The farm steading is built of whinstone rubble and has slate roofs.

On the Kilwinning road is marked the Ward whinstone quarry.

The castle stands on a slightly elevated knoll and is constructed mainly of whinstone.

The marginal mound is apparent in this area, containing large quantities of whinstone, as do both mounds.

Craigenputtock is the craig/whinstone hill of the puttocks (small hawks).

The farmhouse was demolished and the villa built on the site, perhaps utilising the existing whinstone.

The pool occupied by Deep Sea World is an old whinstone quarry.

George was a manufacturer of curling stones, possibly using the whinstone from the Mossend quarry.

Despite the name, the rock in the area is not actually limestone; it is volcanic quartz-dolerite whinstone.

The stone is whinstone, or dolerite, an extremely hard igneous rock which has been quarried in the area since the 1820s.

To the east, the whinstone lies just below the current turf line approximately as far as Turret 29A.

A short distance es west of this point, significant whinstone blocks remain in the ditch, with others deposited on its northern lip.

A whinstone crag and old quarry site sit close to Lochend Farm.

Lochend Farm was partly constructed from whinstone taken from the nearby quarry.

Freestone and whinstone are the underlying rocks and the church itself stands on an elevated outcrop.

Moving west along the escarpment, a glacial surface drift of boulder clay begins to overlay the whinstone.

The cores of both the wall (at this point), and the turret's wing walls are of large whinstone blocks.