Archaeology Notes

Event ID 731492

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NY48NE 5 4548 8577

See also NY48SW 4.

(NY 4548 8577) Earthwork (NR)

OS 6" map (1957)

Old House, Stanygill Burn: On a narrow promontory between Black Grain and Dow Sike, at the point where they join Stanygill Burn, there is a sheepfold with two small, rectangular stone structures on its W side. The N and W walls of the more northerly of these show constructional features suggesting they once formed two sides of a small 16th century house. Jeffrey, mentioning a corner of wall "of great thickness and strength" still standing here, calls this "Puddingburn Ha'".

Close by, on the SE, the promontory is crossed by a low eastern bank, without ditch or entrance, which may be contemporary.

RCAHMS 1956, visited 1949; A Jeffrey 1864

Armstrong mentions "Puddingburn Tower" near to Side (NY48NE 6).

W A Armstrong 1960