Lochnaw Cottage
Structure (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Lochnaw Cottage
Classification Structure (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Lochnaw Castle Policies
Canmore ID 292511
Site Number NW96SE 43
NGR NW 982 628
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/292511
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Leswalt
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Wigtownshire
NW96SE 43 982 628
NW 982 628 We undertook a programme of archaeological investigative works on 30 April-1 May 2007 on land to the NE
of Lochnaw Cottage, consisting of three radial trenches within the footprint of the proposed development and expanding
outwards from upstanding remains which were also excavated and recorded. The structure survived as three sides of a rectilinear recessed structure whose dry stone wall faces retain the sides of a cut into a natural mound. The extant structure, some 4 x 4m, has lost its western wall to modern disturbance. On investigation the eastern portion of the interior had rough stone flooring. Within one radial trench an external wall face was identified, suggesting that the structure was not wholly sunken but rose above the mound as a stone-faced earthen core wall. A separate freestanding dry stone wall possibly related to an associated enclosure.
With no pre-1850 artefacts or distinctive architecture it was not possible to determine date or function to the structure. The 1st Edition OS map appears to depict the structure as the smaller of two buildings forming a small farmstead.
Report deposited with Dumfries and Galloway Archaeology Service and archive with RCAHMS.
Funder: Mr G Doyles.
Alan Matthews, 2007.
Excavation (30 April 2007 - 1 May 2007)
NW 982 628 We undertook a programme of archaeological investigative works on 30 April-1 May 2007 on land to the NE of Lochnaw Cottage, consisting of three radial trenches within the footprint of the proposed development and expanding outwards from upstanding remains which were also excavated and recorded. The structure survived as three sides of a rectilinear recessed structure whose dry stone wall faces retain the sides of a cut into a natural mound. The extant structure, some 4 x 4m, has lost its western wall to modern disturbance. On investigation the eastern portion of the interior had rough stone flooring. Within one radial trench an external wall face was identified, suggesting that the structure was not wholly sunken but rose above the mound as a stone-faced earthen core wall. A separate freestanding dry stone wall possibly related to an associated enclosure.
With no pre-1850 artefacts or distinctive architecture it was not possible to determine date or function to the structure. The 1st Edition OS map appears to depict the structure as the smaller of two buildings forming a small farmstead.
Report deposited with Dumfries and Galloway Archaeology Service and archive with RCAHMS.
Funder: Mr G Doyles.
