Archaeology Notes

Event ID 779310

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS43SE 15 centred 467 348

Also falls on OS 1:10000 scale map sheet NS43NE

Visible on OS vertical air photographs 65/8/700-1 and 84/228/112-14.

This shell and bomb filling factory is situated to the SE of Hurlford E of the A76 (T) road and immediately S of the Kilmarnock to Carlisle railway. The site had been completely cleared by March 1998 to allow the construction of a new prison.

J Guy 2001; NMRS MS 810/11, Vol.1, 168-9

Munitions factory has now been demolished and HM Prison built on the site.

Information from RCAHMS (DE), February 2008