Mennock Water
Looking from level ground in the section everyone camps in to the steep climb that the Mennock does for the next two miles rising over 800ft in height. Its from this point that you are only allowed to pan in winter after the end of September closure of the bottom good goldpanning sections. You are restricted to this and the Glen Clach burn directly to the left till the whole river is open to panning at the end of May. But Glen Clach does have the occassional nugget hiding in a unpanned crevice at the bottom of the burn. There is also a small mine 100 yards up on the right hand fork of the burn a kilometre up. The white cross at side of the road here commerates a district nurse who peddalling her bike down this massive hill lost control and died after crashing into the rock at the side of the road in WW11. . Fifty yards in front of the telegraph pole on the river bank is a exposure of black Clogau shale the premier gold bearing rock. |
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cheers.