Archaeology Notes

Event ID 702544

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS51SE 1 5821 1409.

(NS 5821 1409) Old Hall (NR) (site of)

OS 6" map (1968)

The old mansion, the site of which was pointed out by the occupier of the house of Hall of Auchincross, stood to the NW of that building. It is said to have been a very ancient place.

Name Book 1856

No further information was obtained on the Old Hall, the published siting of which is beneath modern farm buildings. Of possible significance, and placed high in the NW gable end of a late farm building at NS 5823 1408) (NS51 SE 44) are a carved stone face and a lintel stone bearing the initials G C and B C. Nothing is known of the history of these items.

Visited by OS (JRL) 2 November 1981