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Gleniffer Braes
No Class (Event) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Gleniffer Braes
Classification No Class (Event) (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 82379
Site Number NS46SE 84
NGR NS 45 60
NGR Description Centred NS 45 60
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/82379
- Council Renfrewshire
- Parish Paisley (Renfrew)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Renfrew
- Former County Renfrewshire
NS46SE 84 45 60
Archaeological survey: November 1991 - February 1992: ACFA was commissioned by Renfrew District Council to carry out a survey of the Country Park to assist with future management policies. The Park covers around 1,300 acrs on the S side of Paisley in a long strip running E to W along the face of the Gleniffer Braes which rise steeply to a plateau in places 240m above sea level.
ACFA conducted a rapid survey of the entire area to compile a catalogue of all surface features. Areas were drawn at 1:2500 and selected of all surface features were drawn at 1:100. The recorded features included a number of cairns, some of which could be burial cairns, standing stones, kilns and field clearance cairns. Over extensive areas the pre-improvement landscape was detected with systems of field banks, rigs, trackways and farmsteads. The improvement landscape was recorded in detail including field boundaries, gate-posts, water control features and the remains of the substantial farm complexes which were demolished when the area became a Country Park half a century ago. The only surviving working farm, Brownside, was surveyed externally in detail, its buildings show a succession of phases of use and may incorporate pre-improvement structures. Recent features include an extensive scatter of what appear to be bomb craters.
D Topen 1992.
