Abbey Burn, Quarry And Clamps
Lime Clamp(S) (Post Medieval), Limestone Quarry(S) (Post Medieval)
Site Name Abbey Burn, Quarry And Clamps
Classification Lime Clamp(S) (Post Medieval), Limestone Quarry(S) (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Whitecleugh
Canmore ID 97965
Site Number NS95SW 7
NGR NS 9245 5330
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/97965
- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish Carstairs
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Clydesdale
- Former County Lanarkshire
Field Visit (13 July 1994)
NS95SW 7 centred on 925 532
A band of small quarries, up to 200m long (ESE-WNW) and 100m across, have been excavated along both sides of an unnamed tributary of the Abbey Burn to the NE of Whitecleugh. Towards the WNW end two U-shaped lime clampss(NS 9245 5330), measuring up to 5m in length by 3.9m across and 1.6m in depth, have been levelled into an oval mound beside the burn. The 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Lanarkshire 1853, sheet xix) depicts a roughly C-shaped feature at this location, apparently overlain by the bank on the NNE side of a shelter belt of which only the stumps now remain.
(CSW 7004)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 13 July 1994
