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Cowden Castle, Stables
Arch (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (19th Century) (1873)
Site Name Cowden Castle, Stables
Classification Arch (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (19th Century) (1873)
Alternative Name(s) Castleton
Canmore ID 25944
Site Number NN90SE 5
NGR NN 98087 00033
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/25944
- Council Clackmannan
- Parish Muckhart (Clackmannan)
- Former Region Central
- Former District Clackmannan
- Former County Perthshire
NN90SE 5 98087 00033
For Cowden Castle, see NS99NE 1.00.
Standing Building Recording (September 2009)
NN 9808 0003 A level 2-3 standing building survey was completed in September 2009 prior to the farm’s refurbishment and alteration. The farm was built in 1873 as the Home Farm for a local estate. The farm replaced an earlier rectilinear building shown on General Roy’s 18th-century map. The farm included a cart-shed, a three-storey barn, various cattle sheds and a pigsty. On the W-facing elevation of the barn there is evidence of an outshoot building housing a mill wheel; the infill blocking work is evident on the barn wall. 1947 aerial photography indicates that the mill pond was still present in that year. Water-power was then replaced by a diesel engine that drove belt drives for a cattle-cake crushing device housed in the first floor of the barn. The farmhouse interior has been completely modernised and very little original detail remains. However, the farm is relatively unaltered and is a fine example of an estate Home Farm.
Archive: RCAHMS (intended). Reports: SMR and RCAHMS.
Funder: Unicorn Property Group
Mike Cressey - CFA Archaeology Ltd
Metal Detector Find (13 April 2021 - 14 April 2021)
Metal detector survey and site evaluation.
All the potential find spots located in the metal detector survey of the development site were either iron nails or fittings. All three trenches (A, B and C) located a varying depth of turf and subsoil overlying natural clay and stones, there were no finds. Nothing of archaeological interest was revealed. Both pieces of archaeological fieldwork on site suggest that there is no need for any further work prior to redevelopment.
Information from OASIS ID: derekhal1-418854 (D Hall) 2021
Archaeological Evaluation (13 April 2021 - 14 April 2021)
Metal detector survey and site evaluation.
All the potential find spots located in the metal detector survey of the development site were either iron nails or fittings. All three trenches (A, B and C) located a varying depth of turf and subsoil overlying natural clay and stones, there were no finds. Nothing of archaeological interest was revealed. Both pieces of archaeological fieldwork on site suggest that there is no need for any further work prior to redevelopment.
Information from OASIS ID: derekhal1-418854 (D Hall) 2021
