Parkhall
Castle (Medieval), Hollow Way (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Parkhall
Classification Castle (Medieval), Hollow Way (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 46510
Site Number NS83SE 2
NGR NS 8633 3249
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/46510
- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish Douglas
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Clydesdale
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS83SE 2 8633 3249.
(NS 8635 3253) Site of Castle (NR)
OS 6"map, Lanarkshire, 2nd ed., (1912).
The site of a castle of which nothing is known.
Name Book 1896.
No remains are apparent at NS 8635 3253, but at 8633 3249, at the south end of a spur, is a disturbed area in which are traces of an L-shaped building measuring 16.4 x 12.0m along the longer axis. It is difficult to say if these are the remains of a tower or a cottage but the former is not unlikely from its situation. A hollow-way leads up to the site from the Parkhall Burn.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS(WDJ) 8 December 1959.
Site recorded during an archaeological evaluation conducted on 30 alternative route elements, with a combined length of c84km, for a proposed road linking the M8 near Whitburn, Lothian Region with the M6/M74 near Douglas, Clydesdale District.
Castle, hollow-way An illustrated report will be deposited with the NMRS.
Sponsor: Roads Directorate of The Scottish Office Industry Department, managed on its behalf by Historic Scotland.
A J Dunwell and R J Strachan 1995.
Geophysical Survey (February 1990)
Detailed survey of several sites in the area prior to the M74 motorway.
