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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

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Administrative Areas

  • Council South Lanarkshire
  • Parish Bothwell (Hamilton)
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Hamilton
  • Former County Lanarkshire

Archaeology Notes

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.

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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.

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