< Go Back Minerals Posted: Mar 5, 2012 I am doing a minerals search and ploughing my way through the Hamilton Estates in Lanarkshire. There is a limit to how much I can do at one time before I start falling asleep. This is not my favourite kind of job, but somebody has to do it! The search sheet for the Hamilton Estates is the only one I have ever come across where they left a whole volume blank for it when they started the Second Series of Search Sheets in 1905. They didn't even give the Search Sheet a number, so one had to be assigned to it when it was digitised - they called it 1H. The whole search sheet covers 688 pages in the one Volume and then there is the Electronic Search Sheet after that. I didn't have to start at the first page for my present minerals search, but it was not that far into it. Interesting to note the reservation of minerals in nearly every sale up until the nationalisation of coal, after which they didn't bother reserving the minerals nearly as often.