The remaining features take the form of road and path networks which are still in use after several hundred years.
More recent networks and routes were created in the 17th and 18th century when the railways first arrived in Broomlands.
Long before the age of steam, people were not unused to seeing railway networks carrying minerals and wood and being pushed by strong but buckled men.
When the sea receded from the area, it left behind a huge coal field which would be exploited by the people of Broomlands and Bourtreehill almost ten thousand years later.
From August 2014 residents of Broomlands and Bourtreehill will be educated in the newly built Elderbank Primary School.