Waterfoot Farm

Waterfoot Farm (NS 56954 55366) has been renovated into a private dwelling. The basic structure of the farmhouse is still intact. The house was surveyed and photographed in the summer of 2017. A window now removed from the E side of the building has a scratched signature of the writer Neil Munro. Attached to the S side of the farmhouse is a

renovated building, which was once a piggery and the byreman’s house. The rest of the farm buildings are no longer in existence.

Report: To HES in an ACFA Occasional Paper and to WoSAS (intended)

Susan Hunter – Association of Certificated Archaeologists

(Source: DES, Volume 18)

King Henry’s Knowe (also known as Alton East) Facing the modern renovated buildings of King Henry’s Knowe to the E is a building (NS 55774 55316), which retains some of its original older features. The building was surveyed and photographed in the summer of 2017.

Report: To HES in an ACFA Occasional Paper and to WoSAS (intended)

Susan Hunter – Association of Certificated Archaeologists

(Source: DES, Volume 18)

Mainshouse The remains of Mainshouse (NS 56360 55663) were surveyed at 1:200 in the spring of 2017. The current building is L-shaped and measures 39 x 31m internally, facing NW/SE. The remains of a later byre lie at the NE end. The building was substantially built with good dressed

sandstone; however, the remains particularly at the S end are ruinous. It was speculated that the five compartments at the S end of the building may be the oldest part of Mainshouse due to the construction and condition of the walling. It seems that Mainshouse was not always a farm; this is borne out by the genealogy records.

Report: To HES in an ACFA Occasional Paper and to WoSAS (intended)

Susan Hunter – Association of Certificated Archaeologists

(Source: DES, Volume 18)

Burnside Farm The dilapidated building lying NE/SW on the Mearns Road was Burnside Farm (NS 55836 56908). Other buildings to the rear lying in a NW/S–SE direction are ruinous. The farmhouse and farm buildings, plus a small wash-house to the SW, were surveyed and photographed. The two fields to the NE, between Burnside Farm and Cathcart Castle Golf Course, were fieldwalked. Gardens (NS 5607 5616, NS 5570 5663, NS 5599 5601 and NS 5621 5660) were fieldwalked. Eight fields formerly part of Burnside Farm and the fields to the E and S of Greenbank Gardens (NS 5585 5692, NS 5584 5709, NS 5699 5703 and NS 5613 5708), were fieldwalked in the spring of 2016. Various features were recorded including rig and furrow, quarrying activities, turf and stony field banks and dykes, culverts, tracks and sandstone gate posts.

Report: To HES in an ACFA Occasional Paper and to WoSAS (intended)

Susan Hunter – Association of Certificated Archaeologists

(Source: DES, Volume 18)

The Smithy at Waterfoot (NS 56895 55321) dating from 1871 (Mrs Milligan pers. com.) was surveyed and photographed in the summer of 2017. Many of the original artefacts used in the smithy still lie within the building and its grounds. Today, this is a private house.

Report: To HES in an ACFA Occasional Paper and to WoSAS (intended)

Susan Hunter – Association of Certificated Archaeologists

(Source: DES, Volume 18)