Archaeology Notes
Event ID 774335
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NS96NW 20 9091 6572
The following site in North Lanarkshire has been identified and recorded during fieldwork carried out by the staff of West of Scotland Archaeology Service. Full details are available in the WoSAS SMR.
NS 9091 6572 Structure.
West of Scotland Archaeology Service 1997.
'The ruins of an old house... that it is traditionally handed down that this building had never been completed or occupied, and that it was founded about 200 years ago, by a Sir Charles Inglis intentionally as a mansion for one of his sons.
By the appearance of the ruins and the ground around would indicate that it had never been a place of note or residence for a gentleman.'
Name Book 1864. (Book No. 53, 54)
A single unroofed building annotated 'Ruin' is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Lanarkshire 1864, sheet ix), but it is not shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1994).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 20 August 2000.