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• In the sandstones of Corncockle Moor reptilian footprints have been obtained.
• Templand lies between the Corncockle woodland, a marsh, and the Kinnel Water.
• A mineral line ran down to the station from Corncockle Quarry, a large and historically important sandstone quarry near Templand.
• Corncockle ( Agrostemma ), would have made the bread dark-coloured, but the seeds are poisonous, and people who ate the bread might have become ill.
• A species forming no soil seed bank at all ( except the dry season between ripening and the first autumnal rains ) is " Agrostemma githago " ( Corncockle ), which is a formerly widespread cereal weed.
• An example of a crop weed that is grown in gardens is the corncockle, ( " Agrostemma githago " ), which was a common weed in European wheat fields, but is now sometimes grown as a garden plant.
• This is partly due to increased use of herbicides, but probably much more to do with changing patterns of agriculture with most wheat now sown in the autumn as winter wheat and then harvested before any corncockle would have flowered or set seed.
• In 1911 Hamilton Academy's'prep'( junior ) school relocated to its new, separate smaller building behind the main edifice, before completion, in 1913, of the new senior school building in the French Renaissance style and of red freestone from Corncockle Quarry in Dumfriesshire.