Archaeology Notes

Event ID 705329

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/705329

NS67NE 2 665 765.

(NS 665 765) Indeterminate Remains, King's Hill: Antermony House (at NS 662 765), now demolished, stood 1/2 mile E of Milton of Campsie. A quarter of a mile E of its former position there is a knoll called the King's Hill, which has been almost quarried away. Pont (Macfarlane 1906-8) refers to a structure at "Achterminnie" and an unknown author to "Auchterminume" (Macfarlane 1906-8), while Sibbald marks "Achtermmy" (Sibbald 1707) and Gordon (Gordon 1726) illustrates an "artificial mount" at Anterminny. It is possible that this is the feature referred to, and that it was a motte (RCAHMS 1963).

A Gordon 1726; R Sibbald 1707; W Macfarlane 1906-8; RCAHMS 1963, visited 1954.

Crawford notes two tumuli at Antermony, quoting (Gordon 1726) as a sub-reference.

OS 6" map annotated by O G S Crawford, undated

There is no longer any ground evidence to suggest that an archaeological work occupied King's Hill.

There are no burial mounds in the vicinity of the former Antermony House.

Visited by OS (J P) 16 January 1974.