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This
is one of the several limekilns built to assist the agricultural
improvements on the Crinan Moss of the late 18th-early 19th centuries.
Kilns tended to be built close to the source of wood fuel rather than
the lime as more weight of wood would be used. Most of the limestone
used locally, for building and to a greater extent for neutralising the
acid soil was shipped in from Ireland.
As is normal with lime kilns there is a cart
track leading round to the top of the kiln where fuel and limestone were
fed in. The arched opening was where the lime was removed. It is quite
common to find crazed bits of white flint in local fields which were
probably mixed up with the limestone and were accidentally fired in
kilns.
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