Archaeology Notes

Event ID 709825

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT07SE 16 095 744.

The name "Winchburgh" - called Wincelburgh in 1189, means "town in the nook or angle". The presumption is that the "angle" is a bend in the Niddry Burn, but this interpretation does not suit the present village of Winchburgh, some distance from the burn. It should be noted, however, that the barony of Niddry or West Niddry was often known as the barony of Winchburgh, and it is not unlikely that Winchburgh was originally beside Niddry Castle - a site which topographically fits the suggested interpretation.

A Macdonald 1941

Centred at NT 095 744: The area surrounding Niddry Castle (NT07SE 1) is covered by multi-period rig cultivation with associated field banks, but no buildings were located. At NT 0956 7439 are four small recent stack yards consisting of slightly raised circular earthen platforms c.3.0m diameter edged with stones.

Visited by OS (DWR) 6 March 1974