[1] The site has been incorporated into the Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life.

The Summerlee Iron Works was an early adopter of the 'Hot Blast Process', recently patented by James Beaumont Neilson in 1828.

This process burned waste furnace gases in regenerative stoves, to heat up a lattice of fire bricks inside them.

The fire bricks transferred their heat to this air, turning it into the 'hot blast' pumped into the furnaces.

The site was excavated between 1985 and 1987 by the Manpower Services Commission and again in 2000 by Glasgow University Archaeological Research Division.