Archaeology Notes

Event ID 703543

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/703543

NS55NE 30 580 556.

NS 581 570. 'U' structure, Dripps: A D-shaped promontory at a bend in Thorntonhall Burn, near the waterfall, features the grass-covered rubble remains of a rectangular building, 15m by 7m, probably an early longhouse. Partial defences are also evident. There may have been a monastic grange here, as the lands were gifted to Paisley Abbey. There has been no archaeological confirmation of this site.

T C Welsh 1974; nd.

Site recorded by GUARD during an assessment of a series of routes for a proposed southern orbital road to link the M77 with the A726 leading to East Kilbride.

NS 580 556 Grass-covered building remains.

Sponsor: ASH Consulting.

S Halliday 1997