Corncockle Quarry

Stone from here was used in the late Victorian era to build tenements in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and also to construct New York 'brownstones'.

They belong instead to other extinct reptiles such as therapsids - the group that would eventually lead to mammals, and includes animals like Dimetrodon.

The footprints from Corncockle were the first ever described scientifically, by Mr. J Grierson,[4] and the Reverend Henry Duncan[5] in 1828.

The name for the study of fossil footprints and other trace marks, ichnology, was coined by Sir William Jardine, whose book The Ichnology of Annadale was about the trackways found in Corncockle Quarry, part of his ancestral estate.

[8] At its peak the quarry was connected to the Caledonian Main Line by a mineral railway.