Croy, Constarry Road, Croy Miners Club
No Class (Event) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Croy, Constarry Road, Croy Miners Club
Classification No Class (Event) (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 269100
Site Number NS77NW 153
NGR NS 7236 7616
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/269100
- Council North Lanarkshire
- Parish Cumbernauld
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Cumbernauld And Kilsyth
- Former County Dunbartonshire
Archaeological Evaluation (May 2003 - June 2003)
NS77NW 153 7236 7616
NS 723 761 An evaluation was undertaken in May and June 2003, pre-demolition, in advance of the construction of a new community building on the site of an existing Welfare Club. The site lies immediately to the S of the course of the Antonine Wall, and the course of the military way was thought to cross the site. Eight trenches were excavated within the development, covering 10% of the available area.
Three trenches, located in the NW half of the footprint of the new building, contained archaeological features of probable Iron Age or Roman date, including a large fire-pit, two large quarry pits and two possible ditches or gullies. A fragment of Roman or Iron Age pottery and a late prehistoric or Roman quernstone were recovered during the works.
After the demolition of the standing building, a watching brief was undertaken on the excavation of internal pads and foundation trenches for the new building. Features were encountered in four trenches, and included a second fire-pit, a small quarry pit, the continuation of one of the ditches seen in the evaluation, and a series of narrow linear features thought to be post-medieval cultivation furrows.
Archive to be deposited in the NMRS.
Sponsor: Croy Miners Welfare Charitable Society.
E Jones and R Coleman 2003.
