Houston, Old Craigends House
Quarry (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Houston, Old Craigends House
Classification Quarry (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Craigends House; Yewtree Gardens, Houston; Craigends House Policies
Canmore ID 142887
Site Number NS46NW 10.05
NGR NS 4180 6610
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/142887
- Council Renfrewshire
- Parish Kilbarchan
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Renfrew
- Former County Renfrewshire
NS46NW 10.04 4180 6610
A quarry, lying within a modern housing estate was noted during the course of a pre-afforestation survey by Headland Archaeology. It survives as a near vertical rock-face some 3m high. The quarry is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 25-inch map (Renfrewshire 1857, sheet vii.15) and annotated 'Freestone quarry'.
M Dalland and C Lowe (Headland Archaeology) 13 November 1998; NMRS MS899/101, no.1
The mound depicted to the W of the quarry on the 1st edition of the OS 25-inch map (Renfrewshire 1857, sheet vii.15) may be associated with the quarry rather than with the designed landscape around Craigends House.
information from RCAHMS (PM) 22 March 1999
