Oblique aerial view of Greendykes Shale bing, Broxburn.
SC 1681382
Description Oblique aerial view of Greendykes Shale bing, Broxburn.
Date 1991
Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography
Catalogue Number SC 1681382
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 71538
Scope and Content Aerial view of shale bings at Broxburn and Faucheldean, West Lothian These shale bings are mounds of processed shale. This was the waste-product of the shale-oil extraction at the nearby Broxburn Oil Works, founded after the discovery of oil shale there in 1858. Shale-bings are normally flat-topped. Many of the bings in the West Lothian area have now been landscaped into low grassy or tree-topped mounds. The process for producing oil by heating shale was developed in the 1860s by James Young. It was an adaptation of an earlier method for extracting oil from bituminous or 'cannel' coal, patented by Young in 1850. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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