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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 698745
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/698745
NS31NW 3 3385 1798.
(NS 3385 1798) Alloway Mote (NR)
OS 1:10000 map (1981)
Alloway Mote is listed by Talbot as an early medieval ring-work. A semi-oval earthen rampart encloses an area some 30ft in diameter, bounded on the W by a steep slope to the River Doon. The rampart is 5ft or 6ft high internally, while the hollowed-out interior stands some 8ft or 10ft above the level ground outside the rampart. The 'mote' is now covered with trees, shrubs, etc. Courts are said to have been held here. E J Talbot 1974; D Christison 1893; J Smith 1895; NSA 1845 (R Auld and
A Cuthill)
'Alloway Mote' is generally as described. It is a steep-sided mound, 3.5m high externally. The interior is basin-like, with 2.0m high slopes up the 'rampart', and a steep natural drop to the W.
Visited by OS (JD) 15 December 1955
Resurveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 17 November 1965
This tree-planted and scrub-covered ring-work is generally as described. There was probably a substantial ditch around the work, indicated now by silted ground and a depression around the S side which has been emphasised by a pathway and later landscape banking which is up to 1.0 m in height.
Visited by OS (JRL) 2 October 1980
