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Castle Swin
Dun (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Castle Swin
Classification Dun (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Sewn Castle, Swine
Canmore ID 346728
Site Number NS36NE 166
NGR NS 3976 6816
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/346728
- Council Renfrewshire
- Parish Houston
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Renfrew
- Former County Renfrewshire
Field Visit (2012)
NS 3976 6816 This site is recorded on the 1st Edition OS and an estate plan of Houston dated c1770 held by the National Library of Scotland, as ‘Sewn Castle’, and elsewhere as ‘Castle Swin’. It is a dun-like crag of striated basalt on the boundary of Wellees and Cleaves Farms, on the Peter’s Burn, above a drained pond. What could be an entrance at the NW corner and a tumble of shaped stone on the S slope are probably natural. The personal name 'Swine’ (Suibhne, Sveinn) occurs in two other local place names and appears to be a folk name.
Funder: Stuart Nisbet and Alan Steel
Stuart Nisbet,
Alan Steel,
2012
