Ardneil Bay; Bastion Craig
Fish Trap (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Ardneil Bay; Bastion Craig
Classification Fish Trap (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Bell Stane; Ardneil Bay; Firth Of Clyde; Outer Clyde Estuary
Canmore ID 40592
Site Number NS14NE 14
NGR NS 192 477
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/40592
- Council North Ayrshire
- Parish West Kilbride
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Cunninghame
- Former County Ayrshire
NS14NE 14 192 477
See also NS14NE 15, NS14NE 16, NS14NE 23, NS14NE 24, NS14NE 25.
On the E side of sandstone rock shelves named Bell Stane, a massively constructed intertidal wall of well-packed, sub-angular to rounded, boulders of igneous rocks, mainly of basalt stretches to the E across the mouth of a sand-floored bay, towards futher rock shelves. The wall has a width of 1.5m. Towards the middle of the bay it has been breached by storm waves. Its easterly termination has been similarly swept away. The constituent boulders now lie in the shelter of a 1 to 2m scarp of hand, pebbly sandstone. This partly breached wall is capable of retaining a shallow tidal pond. Its original length is estimated to have been 100m.
E M Patterson 1982.
Observation (1982)
See also NS14NE 15, 16, 23, 24 and 25.
On the E side of sandstone rock shelves named Bell Stane, a massively constructed intertidal wall of well-packed, sub-angular to rounded, boulders of igneous rocks, mainly of basalt stretches to the E across the mouth of a sand-floored bay, towards futher rock shelves. The wall has a width of 1.5m. Towards the middle of the bay it has been breached by storm waves. Its easterly termination has been similarly swept away. The constituent boulders now lie in the shelter of a 1 to 2m scarp of hand, pebbly sandstone. This partly breached wall is capable of retaining a shallow tidal pond. Its original length is estimated to have been 100m.
E M Patterson 1982.
Field Visit (6 March 2014)
The remains of this fish trap comprise a discontinuous boulder wall that extends W from the shoreline for a distance of at least 245m, largely following the line of an intrusive igneous dyke. The wall crosses an area of shallow beach before rising onto an extensive off-shore reef; a number of breaks in the wall, including a well defined one at NS19214 47707, may be original features.
Visited by RCAHMS (GFG, AGCH) 6 March 2014.
