Archaeology Notes

Event ID 739173

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS73NE 13 7964 3580

North Auchenbeg is depicted as roofed and with a well, on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Lanarkshire, 1860-4, sheet xxxvii). The Ordnance Survey Name Book describes these buildings as 'A thatched farmsteading one storey in tolerable repair. Property of J Alston Esq'. (ONB).

The current OS 1:10000 scale map (1980) shows the farmstead as unroofed.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), September 2001Ordnance Survey Name Book 1864

NS 799 354 area. A range of agricultural and industrial structures and features was surveyed at 1:500 scale, prior to destruction by open cast mining.

The farms of West and East Auchansbeg (NS73NE 12) were surveyed - the former an undeveloped, linear Lowland fermtoun with recorded occupation since 1695; the latter an early 19th century improved L-plan steading with associated landscaping features.

Sponsor: deptartment of Physical Planning, Strathclyde Regional Council

C Swanson 1990