A Glimpse of History West of Edinburgh

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Enchanted Learning® Photoblog Posted September 29, 2013 10:45 pm

A Glimpse of History West of Edinburgh

The beautiful outcroppings here are oil shale bings—leftover heaps of shale dumped after their oil was extracted during the heyday of the Scottish oil shale industry. Greendykes Bing is the large one on the left, and Niddry Bing is the one on the right.

If you look closely to the left of Niddry Bing, you can see Niddry Castle, where Mary, Queen of Scots, took refuge in 1568.

This photo was taken from less than a mile over Broxburn. The town just past Greendykes Bing is Winchburgh, and in the distance is the delightfully named Firth of Forth.

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Date taken: July 5, 2013 Place taken: Over Broxburn, Scotland Mitchell Spector Copyright ©2013 Enchanted Learning, LLC	RELATED IMAGES The Canadian Arctic: Coutts Inlet Paris from the Montparnasse Tower Edinburgh Castle Overlooking George Heriot's School Snap Lake Diamond Mine Diavik and Ekati Diamond Mines A Half-Mile over Seattle A Gull that is Comfortable with History Edinburgh Dreamworld A Glimpse of History West of Edinburgh Glaciers at Wolstenholme Fjord Northern Lights over Hudson Bay Seven Miles over Cleveland Mercer Island and Mount Rainier From Seattle to the Cascade Mountains A Sliver of the Ring of Fire