Blackshaw Hill, Hopeton
Quarry (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Blackshaw Hill, Hopeton
Classification Quarry (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 359509
Site Number NS24NW 127
NGR NS 22936 48208
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/359509
- Council North Ayrshire
- Parish West Kilbride
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Cunninghame
- Former County Ayrshire
Desk Based Assessment (November 2014 - March 2015)
A desk-based assessment and reconnaissance field survey have been carried out for the Proposed Development Site. Seventeen cultural heritage assets (sites and features) have been identified within the Proposed Development Site. These range in date from the early prehistoric (Neolithic/Bronze Age) to the post-medieval period and include a well-preserved cup and ring marked rock, which is a Scheduled Monument, several prehistoric artefact find-spots, a possible prehistoric enclosure and later post-medieval settlement and agrarian activity.
Funder: Community Windpower Ltd.
CFA Archaeology Ltd
OASIS ID: cfaarcha1-260699
Field Visit (10 November 2014 - 1 March 2015)
A roughly rectangular quarry, 25m by 3m wide and 1m deep, cut into a small slope immediately north of a farm access track.
Information from OASIS ID: cfaarcha1-260699 (M Hastie) 2015
