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Stoneyburn

Building(S) (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Stoneyburn

Classification Building(S) (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Ellershie Hill

Canmore ID 74676

Site Number NS91NE 40

NGR NS 9605 1965

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council South Lanarkshire
  • Parish Crawford
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Clydesdale
  • Former County Lanarkshire

Archaeology Notes

NS91NE 40 960 196

On the lower slope of Ellershie Hill and W of the railway tunnel at 270m OD, there is a building measuring 42m long x 5m wide. Three distinct areas are evident. Area 1 comprises half the overall site, it is divide d from the rest by a bank which spreads to 1m and is 0.3m high. The remaining area is dividedinto two equal spaces by a bank which possibly covers a mortared wall about 0.75m thick. The site has been cut into the natural bank and the building does not appear to have had a front wall.

It is likely that this building was associated with the adjacent railway. It may have been an open fronted workshop, timber built on soleplates laid on the banks. It may have dated to the earliest construction phase of the Caledonian Railway during 1846-1847. Now destroyed by M74 roadworks. (Cf NS91NE 39.)

T Ward 1991; 1992.

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