Old Hall

NX46NW 1 4007 6629.

An old cairn of stones enclosed by a circular fence with a few fir trees on the south side; the stones are much scattered and it is said that there has been human bones found when removing some of the bottom stones. It has a stone coffin in it.

Name Book 1846

In the parish of Penninghame, on a low range of glacial knolls, on the farms of Old Hall, Barnkirk (NX36NE 12), and Corsbie (NX36NE 13), there ar e cairns containing cists. In one of these a correspondent observed only a few ashes; but a boy afterwards lifted a large stone and saw a fine urn, which he smashed by letting the stone fall. It was of coarse hard-burnt clay ornamented with corded lines. It contained a small flake of flint. This correspondent has sent me some clay, like fuller's earth, mixed with stones, which he found in this cist.

G Wilson 1889

No longer extant.

RCAHMS 1912

The much robbed, grass-covered remains of a cairn, now almost reduced to ground level. Its perimeter outline is just discernible giving a diameter of about 20.0m.

Resurveyed at 1:2500 scale.

Visit by OS September 1966.