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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 691418
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/691418
NO55SW 6 c.520 534.
(NO 5201 5341) An excavation to locate a reported souterrain uncovered only structures associated with a quarry.
The souterrain was reported on 30 March 1951 by the farmer (J Compton, West Mains of Turin) whose grieve said the passage had been found in 1939 and that it was paved and high enough to walk along without stooping, that the roof consisted of slabs 'in steps' and that in 1940 he had tipped some twenty loads of boulders and flagstones into it. The site appeared to fall somewhere in the vicinity of Wemyss Castle
(NO55SW 3) which name would be suggestive.
The excavation carried out in April, September and October 1951 located the tipped boulders but the only structure found was a stone-built platform 11' square, apparently to carry a crane built against the side of a quarry.
F T Wainwright 1963; Information from F T Wainwright.
