Charcoal

Our glens were well supplied with woodlands that had been established and managed for sheltered grazing and then for charcoal as the demand for this resource as part of the Iron furnace manufacture, first at Glenkinglass then Bonawe.

Learn about coppicing
Modern and ancient

https://forestryandland.gov.scot/blog/slow-burn-charcoal-production-callander
Coppicing group

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