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Solway Bank
Bloomery Mound (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name Solway Bank
Classification Bloomery Mound (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Solwaybank
Canmore ID 67539
Site Number NY37NW 6
NGR NY 30822 77891
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/67539
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Middlebie
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Annandale And Eskdale
- Former County Dumfries-shire
NY37NW 6 3082 7787.
NY 307 773. Bloomery waste has been collected from a slag mound on Solwaybank.
A E Truckell 1961
A turf-covered mound of iron slag 4.5m in diameter and 0.5m high, located in open moorland at NY 3082 7787. It lies on the left bank of a dried-up stream on a S-facing slope. No trace of bloomery.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 22 June 1970
The mound, which is as described, is now tree-covered and stands in a narrow conifer belt on the hill slope.
Visited by OS (MJF) 7 September 1979
Field Visit (October 1980)
Solway Bank NY 308 778 NY37NW 6
A bloomery-mound is situated 420m NNE of Solwaybank farmhouse and 7m NE of an unnamed burn. It measures about 4.5m in diameter and 0.5m in height.
RCAHMS 1981, visited October 1980
(DES, 1961, 30)
Note (1997)
NY37NW 6 3082 7787.
Listed as bloomery mound.
RCAHMS 1997.
Desk Based Assessment (July 2010 - October 2011)
The effects on cultural heritage interests of the construction and operation of Solwaybank Wind Farm. There would be no indirect effects on the setting of scheduled monuments, NSR sites, listed buildings, conservation areas and gardens and designed landscapes.
Funder: Land Use Consultants Ltd
Information from George Mundie, CFA ARCHAEOLOGY LTD, October 2011
OASIS ID: cfaarcha1-191911
