Round Bush Cottages
Earthwork (Medieval)(Possible)
Site Name Round Bush Cottages
Classification Earthwork (Medieval)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Dornock Wood; Dornoch Wood; Woodhall, The Stank
Canmore ID 67011
Site Number NY26NW 6
NGR NY 235 679
NGR Description NY c. 235 679
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Dornock
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY26NW 6 c. 235 679.
An entrenchment near Dornoch Wood where about an acre of ground has been surrounded by a fosse of considerable depth, is called the stank...the fosse is now drained and mostly filled up.
Statistical Account (OSA) 1792 (Smaill)
Dornock Wood is shown on old maps as being centred on NY 235 679. (A E Truckell, Dumfries Museum)
Visited by OS (EGC) 11 March 1963
This site could not be located, and no further information was found locally.
Visited by OS (RD) 17 October 1967.
Note (1997)
NY 237 676 NY26NW 6
This site is listed in an Atlas of Scottish History (McNeill and MacQueen 1996) as a moated site.
Information from RCAHMS (DE) September 1997
Listed as moated site (probable).
RCAHMS 1997.
