Bothwell Castle
No Class (Event)
Site Name Bothwell Castle
Classification No Class (Event)
Canmore ID 85621
Site Number NS65NE 5.01
NGR NS 688 593
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/85621
- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish Bothwell (Hamilton)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Hamilton
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS65NE 5.01 688 593
See also NS65NE 5.00 NS 6880 5933 Castle.
An area, measuring approximately 50m by 35m and located about 100m E of the castle, was machine stripped of turf and topsoil before the surface of a new visitor car park was laid. No features earlier than the numerous 19th and 20th-century field drains which traversed the site were uncovered within the area of investigation.
D Reed 1993a.
Trial Trench (1993)
An area, measuring approximately 50m by 35m and located about 100m E of the castle, was machine stripped of turf and topsoil before the surface of a new visitor car park was laid. No features earlier than the numerous 19th and 20th-century field drains which traversed the site were uncovered within the area of investigation.
D Reed 1993a.