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Dunlop, 31 Stewarton Road, Hapland Mill
Woollen Mill (19th Century)
Site Name Dunlop, 31 Stewarton Road, Hapland Mill
Classification Woollen Mill (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Glazert Burn
Canmore ID 187229
Site Number NS44NW 54
NGR NS 41006 49164
NGR Description Centred NS 41006 49164
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/187229
- Council East Ayrshire
- Parish Dunlop
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Kilmarnock And Loudoun
- Former County Ayrshire
NS44NW 54 centred 41006 49164
Hapland Mill (Woollen) [NAT]
OS 1:2500 map, 1968.
Mill [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1984.
Location formerly entered as centred NS 4102 4916.
(Location cited as NS 411 491). Hapland Mill, late 19th century. A group of 1- and 2-storey buildings, mostly of brick, with a square-section brick chimney. Now weaves carpet yarn for Kilmarnock.
J R Hume 1976.
NS 411 492 The archaeological evaluation at Newmill Road in April and May 2006 related to the site of Hapland Mill, a 19th-century woollen mill which continued in operation to the 1980s, and its immediate vicinity. The evaluation was undertaken in part-fulfilment of a planning condition on housing development.
A total of 25 individual trenches were opened. No significant archaeological remains were encountered in 18 of these trenches.
Two trenches were excavated across the mill lade and sections of that feature were recorded. The lade had been constructed as an earth-cut ditch, with a stone revetment wall on the upslope side.
Five trenches targeted the site of the mill complex itself. Two of these trenches targeted the earliest part of the complex, first documented in 1837, and three trenches targeted a later 19th-century extension. In all five trenches, in situ remains of the mill buildings were found to survive at foundation or below-floor level. Within the interior of the earliest part of the mill, in situ brick-built features relating to the operation of the mill were also identified, although their date and function remain uncertain.
Archive to be deposited in NMRS. Report lodged with WoSAS SMR and NMRS.
Sponsor: Dickie and Moore.
C Dalglish 2006.
Archaeological Evaluation (April 2006 - May 2006)
NS 411 492 The archaeological evaluation at Newmill Road in April and May 2006 related to the site of Hapland Mill, a 19th-century woollen mill which continued in operation to the 1980s, and its immediate vicinity. The evaluation was undertaken in part-fulfilment of a planning condition on housing development.
A total of 25 individual trenches were opened. No significant archaeological remains were encountered in 18 of these trenches.
Two trenches were excavated across the mill lade and sections of that feature were recorded. The lade had been constructed as an earth-cut ditch, with a stone revetment wall on the upslope side.
Five trenches targeted the site of the mill complex itself. Two of these trenches targeted the earliest part of the complex, first documented in 1837, and three trenches targeted a later 19th-century extension. In all five trenches, in situ remains of the mill buildings were found to survive at foundation or below-floor level. Within the interior of the earliest part of the mill, in situ brick-built features relating to the operation of the mill were also identified, although their date and function remain uncertain.
Archive to be deposited in NMRS. Report lodged with WoSAS SMR and NMRS.
Sponsor: Dickie and Moore.
C Dalglish 2006
