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Loch Lomond, Inchcruin

Building (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Loch Lomond, Inchcruin

Classification Building (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 129798

Site Number NS39SE 27.01

NGR NS 3870 9134

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Stirling
  • Parish Buchanan
  • Former Region Central
  • Former District Stirling
  • Former County Stirlingshire

Archaeology Notes

NS39SE 27.01 3870 9134

An Old Red Sandstone cottage dating to the mid 19th century occupying the site of an earlier house (NS39SE 27.00). The cottage has a slate roof, (slates from Camstraddan at Luss), and has a roughcast 1940s pre-fabricated extension attached to its W end. The pre-fab, which originated at the war-time Bellahouston Hospital probably overlies an earlier building. At the front of the house, along the N side, is a decorative drystone retaining wall and an old beach hedge and turf bank runs up to the house from the landing place on the shore. The wall which appears entirely decorative has probably been built with stones cleared from the demolition of earlier structures and it contains quarried sandstone. White quartz pebbles have been used for decorative purposes at the house.

The ground beside the house and the shore is uneven and suggests earlier foundations just visible as low banks have been levelled. No ground plan could be determined but it is apparent that buildings stood in this area.

On the S side of the house remains of an earlier structure (NS39SE 27.00) are visible. A wall, up to 1m wide at its S end, runs NNE to SSW for 7m from the S side of the bungalow, which it probably pre-dates, before terminating in a pile of clearance stones and dump of Victorian bottles measuring 4m E-W by 3m N-S. A drainage ditch, 0.5m wide and 0.6m deep with an upcast bank from clearance and maintenance of the drain runs off to the W and is located 11m S of the SW corner of the bungalow extension.. This drain has been maintained until recently. To the SE of the house are remnants of a stone wall associated with the steading which can be traced for c. 16m to the S / SE before it is lost. A short stretch of N-S wall is also present just to the S of the SE corner of the old house where a 20th century L shaped extension has been added to the original building.

The wall lines on the S side of the house probably represent the remains of the earlier house that stood on this site.

The Scott family conducted some private excavations in the early 1990s on land in front of the modern house. A wall of dressed stone of some 7 or 8 feet in length with a right angle return was discovered. A still is meant to be associated with the house but there is now no trace of this. Inside the house the herringbone brickwork of the stable floor is still visible.

FIRAT 1996; NMRS MS 993/3

NS 386 913 and NS 400 908 The second of three phases was completed on the assessment of the islands and crannogs in Loch Lomond. Twenty-five islands were visited during the survey, the majority were found to be archaeologically sterile. The two islands in Stirling where sites were recorded have the sites listed in abbreviated form below. Full reports will be deposited in the NMRS and Central Region SMR. The following list excludes isolated dykes and clearance cairns. See also separate entries under Kilmaronock parish, West Dunbartonshire and Arrochar and Luss parishes, Argyll and Bute.

Inchcruin

NS 3870 9135 Standing house.

Sponsors: Friends of Loch Lomond, Historic Scotland, Dunbartonshire Enterprise, SNH, Loch Lomond Park Authority.

FIRAT 1996

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