Field Visit
Date April 1985
Event ID 1156544
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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Barnweill NS 4068 3011 NS43SW 8
This earthwork is situated on the edge of an escarpment 300m WSW of Barnweill farmsteading. It is sub-rectangular on plan (24.2m by 12m) and is enclosed on the WSW, SSE and ENE by a substantial rock-cut ditch up to 7m broad and 2m deep; the upcast has probably been used to raise the level of the interior, which bears some signs of disturbance. These remains are probably to be identified with the 'Old Castle of Barnwyil depicted by Pont. About 40m to the SE, and occupying the summit of the hill, there are the remains of banks and other earthwork features, probably no more than the result of quarrying.
RCAHMS 1985, visited April 1985.
(Pont 1654; Name Book, Ayrshire, No. 18, p. 41; Paterson 1863-6, i, 265; Smith 1895, 128-9; Stell 1985a, 15).
