zKirkmahoeRecords1
HERreference
Name
MDG11661
NEWLANDS HOUSE,
STEADING
Sitetype
FARMSTEAD
Period
19th Century
to Modern
Descr
NX 9618 8518
Originally a range of buildings to the north-west of Newlands
House, as shown on the first edition Ordnance Survey map, by
the time of the second edition at the end of the 19th century
it had been extended to a four-sided courtyard steading.
The major extension and refurbishment of Newlands House,
completed in 1911, involved the demolition of the original
south-eastern range of buildings, leaving the U-shaped
arrangement which stands today.
Information from DGC (AJN) 16 November 2012
MDG11662
MDG11663
NEWLANDS HOUSE,
WALLED GARDEN
DALSWINTON HOUSE
WALLED GARDEN
COUNTRY HOUSE
19th Century
to Modern
18th Century
to Modern
NX98SW 79.00 9423 8408
For Comyn's Tower and Dalswinton Old House see NX98SW 13
and 14 respectively.
NX98SW 79.01 NX 9429 8449 Dovecot
NX98SW 79.02 Centred NX 9445 8435 Walled Garden
NX98SW 79.03 NX 9468 8444 Lodge
NX98SW 79.04 NX 9484 8436 Lodges
NX98SW 79.05 NX 9422 8424 Stables
NX98SW 79.06 Centred NX 9419 8430 Farmsteading
Visible on vertical air photograph, (OS 75/085/146, flown
1975).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM) October 1996.
'B' Listed [HS Ref:10281], see DGC Listed Buildings database
for further details.
MDG11906
BANKHEAD
MILL?; FINDSPOT
Anglian to
Norse
NX98SW 71 937 847
In store at the Royal Museum of Scotland (under accession
number RMS PD 12) there is a paddle-blade which was found
before 1956 during drainage operations at a point about 300m
E of Bankhead farmsteading. The area is situated on the edge
of the haughland of the middle Nith valley, and at an altitude
of about 45m OD.
The blade is of oak, and measures 1' 3?" (0.39m) in length by
up to 3.85" (90mm) in width and 1.05" (32mm) in thickness.
The ventral surface is concave in both planes and has a slight
twist; the distal end is rounded and the proximal end is
tapered around a distinct collar.
This form of paddle has been compared with that commonly
used in Irish horizontal mills and clearly demonstrates the
differences between mill-paddles and those used for
waterborne propulsion.
S Maxwell 1956; R J C Mowat 1996, visited August 1987.
MDG12861
MDG12867
HIGH TOWNHEAD
BANKHEAD
BURNT MOUND
ENCLOSURE
Early Bronze
Age to Late
Bronze Age
Roman
Paddle wheel C14 dated to AD640-880 (95.4%) by NMS.
Information from A Sheridan October 2002
NX 9278 8669
Burnt Mound
Located during site visit in connection with Woodland Grant
Scheme for adjacent shelter belt [JB].
Dumfries and Galloway SMR: Information entered 23/03/2000
NX 9355 8468
Enclosure
AP plot of a sub-rectangular enclosure noted on map sent to
DGSMR from Historic Scotland, annotated 'St J AP BC32'.
Dumfries and Galloway SMR: Information entered 28/03/2000
MDG12871
CARZIELD
EARTHWORK
Late Neolithic
to Medieval
NX 9726 8196
Earthwork
Information supplied by D. Maynard, from BGE Survey 1992.
Dumfries and Galloway SMR: Information entered 31/03/2000
MDG13236
ISLE / GATESIDE OF ISLE;
RIVER NITH
LINEAR FEATURE
Unknown
MDG13369
BROOMDYKES
RING DITCH
Unknown
MDG13431
DALSWINTON
VILLAGE
18th Century
to Modern
Examination of a series of aerial photographs by Barri Jones in
1976 suggest that this feature, an oval banked enclosure, lies
some 190m SSE of the above NGR, at NX 9731 8177. Possible
henge?
Information from DGC [AJN] 6 June 2006
NX98SW 93 934 834Linear cropmarks have been recorded
from aerial photographs (RCAHMSAP 1994) in a field some
300m E of Gateside of Isle, on the S bank of the River Nith. The
cropmarks include two parallel lines running NW - SW for
approximately 100m. They do not appear to be garden
features associated with Tower Isle country house to the SE
(NX98SW 15) or field boundaries. They are not depicted on
the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Dumfrieshire, 1882,
sheet XLI).Information from RCAHMS (JH) 17 July 1998.
NX98SE 96 9754 8361
The cropmark of a ring-ditch approximately 14m in diameter
has been revealed by aerial photography 520m WNW of
Broomdykes farmsteading.Information from RCAHMS (KB) 20
April 1999
A second possible ring ditch, some 100m E, is visible on Solway
Heritage AP 78_24/r2335.
Information from DGC [AJN] 03 January 2003
NX98NW 45 centred 9370 8538
Linear planned estate village dating to c. 1780.
L Philip, 2005
MDG17822
DALSWINTON MILL
WATER MILL
18th Century
to Modern
MDG17823
DALSWINTON VILLAGE 113 MAIN STREET (HOUSES
ON SOUTH SIDE OF ROAD)
(ODD NUMBERS)
TERRACED HOUSE
18th Century
to Modern
MDG17824
DALSWINTON VILLAGE 212 MAIN STREET (HOUSES
ON EAST SIDE OF ROAD)
(EVEN NUMBERS)
TERRACED HOUSE
18th Century
to Modern
NX98NW 33 9480 8518
(Location cited as NX 948 852). Mill, Dalswinton, late 18th to
early 19th century. A two-storey and attic rubble building on
an L plan, with an 8-spoke high-breast wood and iron bucket
wheel, about 3ft (0.91m) wide by 14ft (4.27m) diameter. Now
disused.
J R Hume 1976.
Mid/late 18th century, additions to south and to west early/
mid 19th century. Cornmill built on sloping south bank of
Pennyland Burn. 1/2 storeys with basements and lofts.
Rubble-built with ashlar dressings, all whitewashed. Essentially
2 adjoining rectangular-plan blocks in joggled plan, (principal)
north block with 2 lower wings at west (the larger gabled,
piended low addition in re-entrant angle; main door inserted
alongside, above slope); iron breast wheel (dated 1893) on
piended north wall; single window above. South block (raised
in height perhaps mid 19th century) has central 2-leaf boarded
door on south gable only external opening (broken mill stones
as steps to latter). Roofed with graded slates. Some internal
machinery and gearing survives.
Circa 1790. Long, single storey terraced row; originally 9
centre-doored 3-bay cottages, but some modern alterations,
and now converted to 6 cottages (some doors now windows):
all painted rubble and margins: boarded and glazed doors
mostly 4-pane sashes. Corniced axial stacks: slate roofs, with
straight skews at either gable.
References:
OLD STATISTICAL ACCOUNT vol II p33
Circa 1790. Teraced row of 6 2-storey 3-bay houses (raised a
storey in 19th century). Painted rubble and margins. Each
house has central boarded and glazed door, 4-pane ground
floor windows, 2 smaller modern plate-glass windows above:
MDG17825
DALSWINTON VILLAGE
FORMER SMITHY
BLACKSMITH'S WORKSHOP
18th Century
to Modern
MDG17826
DALSWINTON VILLAGE
FORMER SCHOOL
SCHOOL; HOUSE
19th Century
to Modern
MDG17827
DUNCOW FORMER STABLE
AND FORMER KENNELS
STABLE; KENNEL
19th Century
to Modern
corniced axial stacks; slated roofs, with straight skews at
centre and at ends of terrace. Small shop against south gable.
References:
OLD STATISTICAL ACCOUNT vol II p33
Probably circa 1790. Single storey, 2-bay side elevation to
main road, 6-bay south elevation with off-centre gabled
porch; painted rubble and margins, mostly plate glass sashes;
2 symmetrically placed apex stacks; slate roof, piended to
main road, gabled at west.
Mid 19th century. Single storey former school, now a house,
with window lintels lowered. Rubble-built with ashlar
dressings; whitewashed with contrasting painted margins.
West elevation: off-centre boarded door with rectangular
fanlight, 4 windows to right in regular bays, single window to
left. Bipartite in north gable; roof piended at south, above
lean-to. Single axial stack. Slate roof.
Dated 1878. Single storey former stables built around
rectangular courtyard. Symmetrical 5-bay east elevation:
articulated by slightly advanced central and outer bays;
openings all below 2-centred arches; snecked bull-faced red
ashlar with polished dressings (remainder mostly rubblebuilt); central 2-storey square tower with pend, string at main
eaves level, raised above datestone, single transomed and
hood-moulded light above and finialed pyramidal roof with
projecting eaves, wall-head diamond stacks to flanks rising
from projecting bases; bipartites to flanking bays, hoodmoulded transomed tripartites (blind lower lights) to piended
outer bays: eaves band: slate roofs with red ridging tiles and
finials. Small tripartites to flanks: lower ranges extend towards
west; latter range in domestic use. Courtyard interior: east
range is brick, roof swept down over verandah, latter
supported on cast-iron columns; gabled loft opening over
pend: inserted garage openings to north range: slit ventilators
MDG17828
DUNCOW NORTH LODGE
AND GATEPIERS
GATE LODGE; GATE; GATE
PIER
19th Century
to Modern
MDG17829
DUNCOW SOUTH LODGE
AND GATEPIERS
GATE LODGE
19th Century
to Modern
MDG17830
ISLE TOWER
TOWER HOUSE
16th Century
to Modern
to south range. 2 similar small rectangular sheds to west
formerly used as kennels: both rubble-built, with bull-faced
red ashlar quoins and eaves bands, door on short east wall,
and piended slate roof with axial ventilators, red ridging tiles
and finials.
Probably circa 1878. Single storey gate lodge. Snecked and
bull-faced red ashlar with polished dressings. West elevation:
3 wide bays; projecting and canted inner bay with cross
windows (leaded upper lights) and steep faceted roof, porch
in south re-entrant angle with swept roof and pointed- arched
doorway, and single angle buttress: cross window in left bay.
Transomed tripartite in south gable. Apex and wall head
stacks. Plain barge-boards. Roofed with graded slates. 3
chamfered, square, red ashlar gatepiers, narrowed below
shaped pyramidal caps: spiked cast-iron gates.
Probably circa 1878. Single storey and attic L-plan lodge with
Jacobean features. Stugged red ashlar with polished dressings.
Canted ground floor window and single attic light to north and
to west gables, corbelled wide eaves band between treated as
parapet; gabled and finialed porch in re-entrant angle with
north-facing door below rope-moulding. All main gables
finialed, with shaped crow-steps. Dormer on north wall. Axial
stacks with curved ends: slate roof. Square, red ashlar
gatepiers, narrowed below pyramidal caps: decorative castiron gates and railings: curved low quadrant walls: wall to
south taller, with 2 blind slits.
Several building phases, comprising circa 1589 rectangularplan tower house linked at south east angle to early 19th
century house in Z-plan arrangement: rear courtyard formed
by outbuildings which extend west from tower house west
wall and from south gable of house (former range includes
1700 datestone). All rubble-built with ashlar dressings (house
painted). Tower house: 3 storeys with attic, turrets with
MDG16902
CRAWFORDHALL /
CRAWFORDLAND
FARMSTEAD
Post Medieval
to 18th
Century
MDG16903
CULLIVAIT
BUILDING
Post Medieval
to 18th
Century
MDG16904
CULLIVAIT
BUILDING
Post Medieval
to 18th
Century
curved roof corbelled over 2 diametrically opposite angles,
door to courtyard with armorial panel above, and yett; gabled
wall-head dormer either face; crow-stepped gables: coped
end stack. Interior vaulted at ground level, wheel stair within
south east angle. House: originally 2 storeys, 3 bays, 2nd floor
with pedimented dormer heads added 1882 (dated), Peddie
and Kinnear of Edinburgh, architects: east- facing central door
and small-paned sash windows (1 bipartite): crow-stepped
gables: end stacks. All roofs slated.
References:
MacGibbon 6 Ross, CASTELLATED AND DOMESTIC
ARCHITECTURE, vol III pp 393-4 (1977 reprint) RCAHM
INVENTORY no 337 (inc. photo and plan) Peddie and Kinnear
drawings index and 1955 sale catalogue in NMRS
NX98SE 105 9815 8148A farmstead comprising one unroofed
building of two compartments, two roofed buildings and two
enclosures is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map
(Dumfriesshire 1854-61, sheet xlix). One roofed building and
two enclosures are shown on the current edition of the OS
1:10000 map (1989).Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 27 June
2000
NX98SE 106 9911 8157One unroofed building is depicted on
the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Dumfriesshire 1854-61,
sheet xlix), but it is not shown on the current edition of the OS
1:10000 map (1989).Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 27 June
2000
NX98SE 107 9939 8134One unroofed building is depicted on
the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Dumfriesshire 1854-61,
sheet xlvix), but it is not shown on the current edition of the
OS 1:10000 map (1989).Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 27
June 2000
Watching brief in area in May 07 did not locate any features.
MDG16906
CRAWFORDHALL
FARMSTEAD
Post Medieval
to 18th
Century
MDG16912
FORESTHEAD
FARMSTEAD
Post Medieval
to 18th
Century
MDG16914
OLD PENNYLAND
FARMSTEAD; ENCLOSURE
Post Medieval
to 18th
Century
MDG16915
PENNYLAND
BUILDING
Post Medieval
to 18th
Century
MDG16916
DALSWINTON WOOD
SHEEP FOLD
Post Medieval
to 18th
Info entered DGSMR JB 02/07/07
NX98SE 104 9817 8153A farmstead comprising three unroofed
buildings, one of which has two compartments, two roofed
buildings, one of which is T-shaped and the other has an
attached roofed horse-gang, and two enclosures is depicted
on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Dumfriesshire 185461, sheet xlix). Two roofed buildings and two enclosures are
shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map
(1989).Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 27 June 2000
NX98NW 51 9171 8622A farmstead comprising one unroofed
building annotated Ruin, one roofed building and four
enclosures is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map
(Dumfriesshire 1861, sheet xl). One roofed building and one
enclosure are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000
map (1982).Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 21 June 2000
NX98NW 52 9365 8768A farmstead annotated Old Pennyland
(Ruins), comprising two unroofed buildings, one of which is a
long building of five compartments, and an enclosure lying
approximately 100m to the S are depicted on the 1st edition
of the OS 6-inch map (Dumfriesshire 1861, sheet xli). The
unroofed long building and the enclosure are shown on the
current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1982).Information
from RCAHMS (SAH) 22 June 2000
Visible on recent aerial photographs as grass-covered footings.
Information from DGC (AJN) 1 July 2013
NX98NW 53 9380 8808 A partially roofed building annotated
Ruin is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map
(Dumfriesshire 1861, sheet xli). One unroofed building is
shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map
(1982).Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 22 June 2000
NX98NW 54 9438 8575One unroofed L-shaped structure
attached to a wall and annotated Sheepfold is depicted on the
Century
MDG16917
DOCTOR'S KNOWE
BUILDING
Post Medieval
to 18th
Century
MDG16918
MARYFIELD WOOD
FARMSTEAD
Post Medieval
to 18th
Century
MDG16919
BOG HALL
BUILDING
Post Medieval
to 18th
Century
MDG16920
CROFTHEAD
FARMSTEAD
Post Medieval
to 18th
Century
MDG16921
GLENDENHOLM MOOR
SHEEP FOLD
Post Medieval
to 18th
Century
MDG16922
NEWLANDS LINN /
FARMSTEAD
Post Medieval
1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Dumfriesshire 1861, sheet
xli), but it is not shown on the current edition of the OS
1:10000 map (1982).Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 22 June
2000
NX98NW 55 9341 8561One unroofed building annotated Ruin
is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map
(Dumfriesshire 1861, sheet xli), but it is not shown on the
current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1982).Information
from RCAHMS (SAH) 22 June 2000
NX98NW 56 9420 8527A farmstead annotated Maryfield
(Ruins), comprising three unroofed buildings, is depicted on
the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Dumfriesshire 1861,
sheet xli), but it is not shown on the current edition of the OS
1:10000 map (1982).Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 22 June
2000
NX98NW 57 9470 8533One small unroofed building is
depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map
(Dumfriesshire 1861, sheet xli), but it is not shown on the
current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1982).Information
from RCAHMS (SAH) 22 June 2000
NX98SW 95 9462 8495A farmstead comprising two unroofed
buildings, each annotated Ruin, two roofed buildings and two
enclosures is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map
(Dumfriesshire 1861, sheet xli). One partially roofed building
and two enclosures are shown on the current edition of the
OS 1:10560 map (1970).Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 22
June 2000
NX98Ne 32 9779 8690One unroofed structure annotated
Sheepfold is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map
(Dumfriesshire 1861, sheet xli), but it is not shown on the
current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1983).Information
from RCAHMS (SAH) 22 June 2000
NX98NE 33 9547 8636
WILDERNESS
to 18th
Century
MDG16923
THE LEYS
FARMSTEAD
Post Medieval
to 18th
Century
MDG16924
GUILLYBURN / CARIN HALL
FARMSTEAD
Post Medieval
to 18th
Century
MDG16925
GUILLYBURN / TOMSLAND
FARMSTEAD
Post Medieval
to 18th
Century
MDG16946
CARRICKRIGG
FARMSTEAD
Post Medieval
to 18th
Century
A farmstead annotated Wilderness (Ruin), comprising one
unroofed long building of six compartments, is depicted on
the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Dumfriesshire 1861,
sheet xli), but it is not shown on the current edition of the OS
1:10000 map (1983).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 22 June 2000
NX98NE 34 9541 8522A farmstead comprising one unroofed
long building of three compartments, which is annotated Ruin,
and two roofed buildings, one of which is L-shaped, is depicted
on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Dumfriesshire 1861,
sheet xli), but it is not shown on the current edition of the OS
1:10000 map (1983).Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 22 June
2000
NX98NE 35 9766 8535
A farmstead annotated Cairn Hall (Ruins), comprising three
unroofed long buildings arranged around a courtyard, is
depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map
(Dumfriesshire 1861, sheet xli), but it is not shown on the
current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1983).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 22 June 2000
NX98NE 36 9796 8560"The ruins of a farm house. There is part
of the wall still standing.."Name Book 1861A farmstead
annotated Tomsland (Ruin), comprising two unroofed
buildings, is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map
(Dumfriesshire 1861, sheet xli), but it is not shown on the
current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1983).Information
from RCAHMS (SAH) 22 June 2000
NX98SE 99 9700 8479
A farmstead comprising two unroofed buildings annotated
Ruin, two roofed buildings, one of which is a long building and
the other has two outshots, and four enclosures is depicted on
the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Dumfriesshire 1861,
MDG16947
CASTLEHILL
FARMSTEAD
Post Medieval
to 18th
Century
MDG16948
KERRICKS
FARMSTEAD
Post Medieval
to 18th
Century
MDG16950
MARYFIELD COTTAGE
BUILDING
Post Medieval
to 18th
Century
MDG16951
AUCHENCAIRN
VILLAGE
Post Medieval
to 18th
Century
sheet xli). Two roofed buildings and three enclosures are
shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1989).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 22 June 2000
NX98SE 100 9755 8407A farmstead comprising one unroofed
building, six roofed buildings, two of which are long buildings
and two are T-shaped, and four enclosures is depicted on the
1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Dumfriesshire 1861, sheet
xli). Four roofed buildings and one enclosure are shown on the
current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1989).Information
from RCAHMS (SAH) 22 June 2000
NX98SE 101 9590 8349A farmstead comprising one unroofed
building annotated Ruin, two roofed buildings, one of which is
arranged around a courtyard and has an attached roofed
horse-gang, and three enclosures is depicted on the 1st
edition of the OS 6-inch map (Dumfriesshire 1861, sheet xli).
Six roofed buildings and two enclosures are shown on the
current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1989).Information
from RCAHMS (SAH) 22 June 2000
NX98NW 58 9401 8517 One unroofed building of two
compartments annotated Ruin is depicted on the 1st edition
of the OS 6-inch map (Dumfriesshire 1861, sheet xli), but it is
not shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map
(1982).Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 22 June 2000
NX98SE 103 9800 8475
See also:
NX98SE 59 NX 9816 8476 Barn
'A pleasant village "said to be once a place of importance".
The houses have distinct local names.'
Name Book 1861
A village comprising two unroofed buildings, each annotated
Ruin, two partially roofed buildings, fifteen roofed buildings,
three of which are long buildings and two are L-shaped, and
their associated enclosures is depicted on the 1st edition of
the OS 6-inch map (Dumfriesshire 1861, sheet xli). Ten roofed
buildings and their associated enclosures are shown on the
current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1989).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 22 June 2000
MDG16957
GOUKSTANE BURN
BUILDING
Post Medieval
to 18th
Century
MDG17811
WELLINGTON BRIDGE
OVER THE LAKE
ROAD BRIDGE
19th Century
to Modern
MDG17812
WEST GALLABERRY FARM
STEADING AND
HORSEMILL
FARMSTEAD
19th Century
to Modern
Planned village founded c. 1770 as an estate village with a
port/harbour or pier.
L Philip, 2005
NX98NE 31 9770 8951One unroofed building and one small
roofed building are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6inch map (Dumfriesshire 1861, sheet xxxii), but they are not
shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map
(1983).Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 13 June 2000
Earlier 19th century. Single short segmental-span road bridge.
Rubble-built, with red ashlar voussoirs, ramped parapet
coping and square terminal piers, flat pyramidal caps to latter.
Probably mostly early 19th century. 3 single storey,
rectangular-plan steading ranges forming U-plan (courtyard
closed at (4th) south side by plainer and mostly later
structures), octagonal horsemill on outer face of north range.
All limewashed rubble and dressings. Horsemill has faceted
roof, supported mostly by monolith stone piers above dwarf
walls: interior machinery and gearing, with harnesses for 3
horses, survives virtually intact. Adjoining long north range
may be late 18th century (power shaft from horse gin cut and
milling machinery all removed): small loft openings at west
end of gable head stack: west range linked to long range by
plain furnace/boiler; south west angle chamfered to below
eaves. Piended north east range has 3 stable doors to
courtyard 3 swept-roofed roof vents above: other courtyard
MDG17852
KEMYS HALL AND
OUTBUILDINGS
COUNTRY HOUSE
18th Century
to Modern
MDG17853
KIRKMAHOE PARISH
MANSE AND GATEPIERS
MANSE
19th Century
to Modern
MDG17854
KIRKTON VILLAGE
KIRKMAHOE PARISH
CHURCH, CHURCHYARD
AND GATEPIERS
PARISH CHURCH;
CEMETERY
19th Century
to Modern
openings also square-headed, and include 2 cart openings on
west range, slit ventilators on north range. All roofed with
graded slates.
References:
NMRS - RCAHM Record Sheet
Mid 18th century with alterations. 2-storey 3-bay house with
recessed low asymmetrical flanking wings, home of Burns'
"Chloris". Rubble-built with ashlar dressings. Altered ground
floor with bipartites and with modern central porch; 3 1st
floor windows, sashes with 4-pane glazing pattern. Straight
skews; end stacks; slate roofs. L-plan outbuildings to north
west with 18th century barn to roadside.
Architect probably John MacCracken of Dumfries. Built 17989. 2-storey, 3-bay manse with single storey, 2-bay east wing.
Squared and tooled rubble and margins all painted. South
elevation: house has central panelled door with fanlight in
pilastered door case: ground floor windows altered to
tripartites probably in mid 19th century; all windows plate
glass sashes. Straight skews; corniced end stacks; roofed with
graded slates. Bipartites to east wing and rebuilt end stack;
lower range extends to rear. 2 square painted a ashlar
gatepiers each with rusticated front, cornice, and ball finial:
railings on curved quadrant walls.
References:
SRO CH2 1284/16 p. 97ff NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT p.64
1879 survey plans by James Barbour held by Sutherland Dickie
and Copeland, Dumfries
Probably Walter Newall of Dumfries, architect. Built 1822-3;
some internal re-ordering presumably by James Barbour of
Dumfries circa 1889. Rectangular-plan, 3-bay Gothic church,
with 3-stage square tower at west gable, gabled vestry added
to inner bay of south wall. Stugged red ashlar coursers, with
polished dressings. All openings hood-moulded. Tower has
MDG17855
KIRKTON VILLAGE ROWAN
HOUSE
HOUSE
19th Century
to Modern
MDG17856
KIRKTON VILLAGE ROWAN
COTTAGE
HOUSE
19th Century
to Modern
MDG17857
KIRKTON VILLAGE
GREYSTONE COTTAGE
HOUSE
19th Century
to Modern
Tudor-arched door facing west; other openings all geometric
traceried, louvered at upper stage; strings at cill levels,
diagonal buttresses, stepped at each stage, with pinnacles
rising above crenellated parapet. 2 buttressed and pinnacled,
Tudor-arched and gabled shallow porches on cross-finialed
east gable flanking large perpendicular- traceried window;
also quatrefoil and cross openings. Diagonal buttresses with
pinnacles reaching above eaves. Perpendicular-traceried
windows to buttressed north and south elevation bays. Eaves
band; slate roof. Vestry also has diagonal buttresses, and
pointed window facing south; modern addition in west reentrant angle. Interior: octagonal pulpit with canopy to north
of east window; leaded east window; pews have panelled
backs; ceiling has simple ribs; modern organ gallery on west
wall. Ashlar-coped rubble-built wall encloses churchyard;
square gatepiers with domed caps; hearse house to south.
Some 18th- 19th century monuments with good classical
ornament.
References:
H Colvin, BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS,
1600-1840, 1978. p.588 James Barbour scheme for
improvements held by Sutherland Dickie and Copeland,
Dumfries (drawings dated 1889)
Early 19th century. 2 storeys, 3 bays. Painted stugged ashlar.
Central boarded door with fanlight; 4-pane sashes. Straight
skews; corniced end stacks; slate roof.
Early/Mid 19th century. Single storey cottage; 3 narrow bays.
Squared rubble and margins all painted. Off-centre door with
fanlight; 4-pane sashes. Blocked low, margined opening at left
(other margins linked to eaves band). Roofed with graded
slates.
Early 19th century. Single storey 3-bay cottage. Harled. Central
door; plate glass sashes. Straight skews; corniced end stacks;
MDG17858
KIRKTON VILLAGE VILLAGE
PUMP
PUMP
19th Century
to Modern
MDG17859
KIRKTON VILLAGE 1-5
WEIGHBRIDGE COTTAGES
TERRACED HOUSE
19th Century
to Modern
MDG17860
MILNHEAD HOUSE
COUNTRY HOUSE
18th Century
to Modern
MDG17861
MILNHEAD HOUSE
DOVECOT
DOVECOT
18th Century
to Modern
roofed with graded slates (2 tiny roof lights).
Erected probably first half of 19th century. Small, freestanding village pump. Square-section with pyramidal top; red
ashlar, iron mechanism and handle.
Earlier 19th century, restored later 20th century. Formerly 6
single storey, centre-doored 3-bay cottages, 4 facing south, 2
set at an angle, facing south west (cottage to left of former
range, at angle, now has blocked door.) All painted rubble and
margins: 4-pane sashes and boarded doors: straight skews:
red ashlar apex stacks with projecting caps: slated roofs.
Cobbled pavements.
Mid/late 18th century. Symmetrical 2-storey country house,
set on slope, with raised basement; adjoining out-buildings to
north, garden wall to south (last listed separately). Coursed
and squared red rubble, ashlar margins. 3-bay east elevation:
advanced and pedimented inner bay with rusticated quoins,
painted central doorcase approached by steps; panelled door
with fanlight; 12-pane sashes; eaves/lintel band; base course
and cornice. Symmetrically placed stacks; piended roof with
graded slates. 2-bay flanks. West elevation 4 bays, inner 2
advanced and piended; brackets over mullioned inner
basement opening. Small greenhouse. Outbuildings: 2 ranges;
smaller at basement level and in domestic use: larger at
ground level behind curved quadrant wall and supported
beside house on series of stone piers: garage openings on
west wall.
Probably mid/late 18th century. Square-plan dovecot (possibly
originally a shed) with pyramidal roof, set on ground sloping
steeply down towards east. 2 levels, lower built of roughly
coursed and squared red rubble with ashlar dressings, upper
level hand made bricks. 2 west-facing doors, door on north
wall above forestair, drain low on east wall and flight-holes
high on east and west walls. Roofed with graded slates.
MDG17862
MILNHEAD HOUSE
WALLED GARDEN
WALLED GARDEN
18th Century
to Modern
MDG17863
NEWLANDS HOUSE
COUNTRY HOUSE
19th Century
to Modern
MDG17864
NEWLANDS LODGE AT
SUNNYBRAE
LODGE
19th Century
to Modern
MDG17865
RIDDINGWOOD HOUSE
COUNTRY HOUSE
19th Century
Probably built mid/late 18th century. Garden enclosure North
wall (built of brick) adjoins south east angle of house and has
round-headed wooden gate: other walls built of rubble and/or
brick: ashlar coping slabs. South wall swept up towards high
east wall.
Completed 1911. Large Scottish Baronial mansion
incorporating mid(?) 19th century 2-storey 3-bay house. 2/3
storeys with basements and attics, square tower rises 2 stages
above main roofline. Asymmetrical, with strings, corbelled and
crenellated parapets, bartizans with spouts (square tower also
with cap house), crow-stepped gables, single, bipartite or
canted windows, coped or castellated stacks. Snecked red
ashlar with polished dressings. South elevation: castellated
massive porch with columned doorpiece added centrally to
original house, flanking ground floor windows canted; smaller
full-height wing recessed at right; tall "L-plan towerhouse" to
left is advanced with 2-storey canted window and large
corbelled bartizan, modern fire escape at north gable. North
wing extends from rear of original house and has canted
entrance bay to west with steep-pitched facetted roof. Slate
roofs throughout.
References:
THIRD STATISTICAL ACCOUNT p. 143
2 single storey gabled ranges in T-plan, and set on slope; east
range dated 1817, other range may be contemporary. Painted
rubble, with red ashlar margins. East range: door and window
to east wall, venetian window to south gable, north gable
window has dated lintel; wall-head stack at south west. West
range has 3-bay south elevation, tripartite (probably mid 19th
century; narrow outer lights) flanked by single windows:
basement at west, entered in west gable: apex stacks. Mostly
sash windows with small panes; straight skews; slate roofs.
Walter Newall of Dumfries, architect. Earlier 19th century. 2-
to Modern
MDG17866
RIDDINGWOOD GARDEN
HOUSE
BUILDING
19th Century
to Modern
MDG17867
QUARRELWOOD FORMER
CAMERONIAN MANSE AND
CHAPEL
NON-CONFORMIST CHAPEL
18th Century
to Modern
storey small mansion house with 2 symmetrical elevations.
Stugged coursers, ashlar dressings and window architraves, all
painted. 3-bay west elevation: central panelled door,
pedimented doorpiece, ground floor windows have apron
panels and consoled cornices: all 12-pane sashes. 5-bay south
elevation: (2 bays to right may be additions) corniced ground
floor openings; inner bay slightly advanced with canted
ground floor window (central French window), other windows
lowered to base course level (aprons removed). Eaves course;
cornice; wall head or axial stacks (square flues kitchen on east
wall faces south; 2-storey rear wing beside mullioned and
transomed stair window.
References:
Loudon, ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF COTTAGE, FARM AND VILLA
ARCHITECTURE, 1839. pp 462-466 (inc plans specifications,
etc)
Earlier/mid 19th century, small, square castellated garden
house with hood-moulded openings, set above Park burn on
sloping and terraced west bank. Rubble-built, with stugged red
ashlar dressings. Door to east, window to north, each below
blind panel. Corbelled bartizans above angles. Monopitch roof
behind parapets, sloping down towards west, with fish-scale
banding. Mock gun port adjoining rubble-built terrace wall to
north.
All probably circa 1798. 2-storey 3-bay manse now linked to
(restored) Cameronian chapel. All whitewashed, rubble with
red ashlar margins.
Manse: panelled door with ogee glazed fanlight in roundarched and moulded central doorway; plain Venetian ground
floor windows in outer bays; sashes with 12-pane glazing at
1st floor; straight skews; end stacks; full-height rear wing.
Chapel: restored from ruinous condition by Anthony Curtis
Wolfe, 1969 - now forms library; irregular octagon-plan with
MDG17873
CASTLEHILL FARM FORMER
WINDMILL
WINDMILL
17th Century
to Modern
MDG17874
CLONFEACLES TOWER
COMMEMORATIVE
MONUMENT
19th Century
to Modern
MDG17875
DALSWINTON HOUSE
COUNTRY HOUSE
18th Century
to Modern
facetted roof; 3 tall round-headed windows to south (inner
window originally a door; square-headed window to east;
blocked door, 2 12-pane sashes and wall-head stack to north.
All roofs slated.
References:
G Hay, ARCHITECTURE OF SCOTTISH POST-REFORMATION
CHURCHES, 1957. pp.96, 254
Late 17th/early 18th century. Roofless, 4-storey, battered
circular shell of tower windmill. Rubble built, with red ashlar
dressings. Original south-facing door now blocked; mid/later
19th century door faces north; other openings at each level all
blocked. Flooring all removed.
References:
John Hume INDUSTRIAL ARCHAEOLOGY vol 1, 1976. p102
Douglas, Oglethorpe & Hume, SCOTTISH WINDMILLS, 1984.
p.29 and appendix (inc. plans and elevations)
Dated 1810. Straight-sided round tower. Rubble-built with red
ashlar dressings, on a boulder base. Doorway faces east, with
plaque above; 4 upper floor windows and single slit (to light
stair); band course below coped parapet. Roofless, and
interior now completely gutted.
References:
NEW STATISTICAL ACCOUNT p.140
Plaque states that the tower was erected as a monument to
Rev Dr Wm Richardson of Ireland, who introduced fiorin
grass from which great agricultural successes were
anticipated.
Built circa 1785, additions and alterations circa 1920.
Symmetrical, originally severely classical, 3-storey mansion
house with sunk basement: polished red ashlar, channelled at
basement. Original house: 5-bay south elevation with
architraved windows corniced at ground, curved 5-light
window replaced original central porch, north elevation with
MDG17876
DALSWINTON HOUSE
DALSWINTON OLD HOUSE
LAIRD'S HOUSE
17th Century
to 18th
Century
MDG17877
DALSWINTON HOUSE DAM
AT DALSWINTON LOCH
DAM
18th Century
to Modern
MDG17878
DALSWINTON HOUSE
DOVECOT
DOVECOT
18th Century
to Modern
full-height central bow; west elevation: 5 narrower bays with
platt spanning basement area. Additions to east comprise fullheight narrow bay set back at north and south with windows
in tall panels and projecting entrance bay set into east facade
with channelled pilaster strips, large round- arched mullioned
and transomed window over east-facing Doric-columned and
open-pedimented doorpiece: panelled 2-leaf door in cavetto
reveals. Mutule cornice to all elevations; partly-balustraded
parapet; symmetrically placed stacks; shallow-pitched piended
slate roof. Curved basement area to east enclosed by cast-iron
balustrade; tunnel at north east below main drive.
References:
OLD STATISTICAL ACCOUNT vol II p. 32. P Gray,
DUMFRIESSHIRE ILLUSTRATED vol I, 1894, (illus. opp p.38)
Early 17th century. Surviving fragments of abandoned house,
including circular stair turret above north west angle of
vaulted subterranean basement. Turret: squared red rubble
with ashlar dressings and moulded architraves; door in
(former) north-east re-entrant angle has pediment removed;
horizontal gun loops; string below parapet; ragged stonework
where main part of house adjoined; wheel stair within;
roofless.
References:
RCAHM INVENTORY OF DUMFRIES, 1920. no. 338
Built probably circa 1785 for Patrick Miller of Dalswinton,
pioneer of steam navigation. Small straight dam at south east
end of Dalswinton Loch. Rubble built, with red ashlar dressings
and coping.
Built before 1796. Circular dovecot, divided by band course
into 2 storeys: all red ashlar, stugged below band, and droved
above: polished dressings. Now roofless and gutted. 2 doors
and 2 windows at lower level: flight holes in and below main
cornice: corbels above latter (parapet removed). Interior
MDG17879
DALSWINTON HOUSE
WALLED GARDEN
WALLED GARDEN
18th Century
to Modern
MDG17880
DALSWINTON HOUSE BACK GATE LODGE
LODGE AND GATEPIERS
19th Century
to Modern
MDG17881
DALSWINTON HOUSE EAST
GATE LODGES AND
GATEPIERS
GATE LODGE
18th Century
to Modern
MDG17882
DALSWINTON HOUSE
FORMER STABLES
STABLE
18th Century
to Modern
partly brick-lined; nesting boxes destroyed: evidence of an
internal stair.
Built circa 1790. Quadrangular garden enclosure, having high,
rubble-built & ashlar-coped walls with rusticated red ashlar
terminal piers at south (unwalled at south); large opening
inserted central on east wall; glass houses at north.
Earlier/mid 19th century. Single storey lodge. Red sandstone
ashlar. South elevation: inner part canted, with 3 windows,
and crenellated parapet above eaves level; single window to
left, door to right. Margined openings; windows are 4-pane
sashes. Central apex stack; piended roof, with graded slates
and projecting eaves, continued over rear addtion at north
east corner. Square, red ashlar gatepiers are corniced, with
flat pyramidal caps; curved quadrant walls (rebuilt?) are
snecked, with ashlar cope, re-used 1710 datestone
incorporated at south.
Late 18th century. Pair of similar single storey Classical lodges
flanking south gateway. All red ashlar. Each lodge has 3-bay
elevation to drive with door nearest main road; single bay
flanks, pedimented inner projection to main road with single
window in round-headed opening, and cill band continued as
coping of quadrant walls: all windows 12-pane sashes; cornice;
blocking course; central apex stack and piended slate roof.
Lower, late 19th century addition to rear of each lodge. 2 tall,
circular red ashlar gatepiers; each has fluted frieze with
rosettes, cornice and large urn finial on stepped base. Modern
wrought-iron gates and railings. Quadrant walls clasp flank
elevations of lodges.
Late 18th century, substantially altered at various dates into
later 20th century. Symmetrically planned Classical stable
block built around rectangular (cobbled) courtyard, with clock
tower over courtyard entrance, and now mostly converted for
domestic use. Single storey with lofts/upper floor. Red
MDG17883
DALSWINTON BARONY
CHAPEL
CHAPEL
19th Century
to Modern
MDG17894
CARNSALLOCH HOUSE
COUNTRY HOUSE
18th Century
to Modern
sandstone ashlar. Tower is irregular octagon on square base,
fluted frieze with rosettes and later 19th century steep
facetted platform roof with iron brattishing and weathervane.
North elevation articulated with advanced central and outer
bays, depressed-arched central pend, unfortunate garage
opening and modern window at left replacing 2 depressedarched cart openings (3 additional bays at left; round-head
door and windows); 2 round-headed windows in right bay,
single round-headed windows to intermediate bays. Main
cornice broken by 3 inserted upper floor windows (2 modern,
1 dormer) and blocking course. Apex stacks; piended roof,
with graded slates. Simple vaulting in pend below tower.
Courtyard interior all limewashed, with painted margins;
variety of openings, 3 blocked, arcaded, depressed-arched cart
openings on north range.
Circa 1875. Simple, rectangular-plan 7-bay Gothic chapel. All
faced with corrugated iron, except timber barge boards and
gabled porch at south end of long east wall; small, simple
metal spire over south gable. Pointed window openings with
cusped-headed lights to bays, door, and similar large bipartite
(leaded glass) to north gable, tripartite to south gable. Faceted
and finialed spire on square base, cusped- headed and
louvered belfry opening to each face of latter.
Dated 1759 on north wing. Palladian mansion house; 2 storeys
on raised basement with flanking wings. All red ashlar. House:
3-bay east elevation with early 19th century central pilastered
porch (panelled and studded door in pedimented doorpiece),
flanked by 12-pane sashes in architraves, latter corniced, with
pulvinated frieze; 3 Burlington windows in round-arched
panels at principal floor. Ionic-columned jambs on plinths;
latter probably terminated blind balustrades; square,
architraved windows above (6-pane sashes). Continuous
bands at base and at ground floor level; mutule cornice;
MDG17895
CARNSALLOCH CHAPEL AT
THE MOUNT
CHAPEL
19th Century
to Modern
MDG17896
CARNSALLOCH LODGE AND
GATE LODGE; GATE; GATE
19th Century
blocking course; 2 symmetrically placed stacks; piended slate
roof. Single window at each level of flanks; linked by cornice);
piended roofs, with graded slates. Low alterations and fire
escapes to rear above, narrow lean-to service corridor linking
wings. Piended, 2-storey wings each have single bay east front
(12-pane sashes), and are linked to house by quadrant wall
with corniced, architraved and panelled door between alcove
niches; inner part of north wing is earlier. 18th century house,
rendered, with advanced inner bays (gabled on north
elevation) and 5-bay south front. Modern additions to north
and to south of wings. Interior: some decorative ceiling
plasterwork of late 18th/ early 19th century, especially in halls
and ground floor rooms: plain top floor rooms. Modern lift
shaft in stair well obscures most of former anthemionpatterned silhouette balusters. Some painted raised and
fielded wooden panelling survives in earlier house.
References:
SRO RHP 4417 (1911 sale catalogue). Scottish Field, April 1957.
E B Lamb, architect, circa 1850. Small private chapel with apse
and crypt. Decorated Gothic. Stugged and snecked red ashlar
with droved or polished dressings. 2 bays, stepped buttresses,
gableted above eaves, 5-sided apse at east, elaborately
carved, pointed-arched entrance between 2 buttresses in west
gable: studded 2-leaf door with decorative hinges below
shallow pointed arch, ball-flower moulded reveals, initials AI
and LJ in spandrels: tall tympanum with curvilinear tracery and
(broken) leaded lights; crest in gable above. Pointed windows
to bays and to aspe (east window reaches above eaves): all
openings hood-moulded, with label stops. Off-set below cill
level; eaves cornice; blocking course with shields over
openings; stone flagged and ribbed roof with decorative
ridging. Approached from east by 3 flights of stone steps.
Earlier 19th century. Single storey, 3-bay lodge with classical
GATEPIERS
PIER
to Modern
MDG17897
CARNSALLOCH FORMER
STABLES
STABLE
18th Century
to Modern
MDG17898
CARNSALLOCH HOUSE
WALLED GARDEN AND
ADJOINING COTTAGE
WALLED GARDEN; ESTATE
DWELLING
18th Century
to Modern
details. Polished red ashlar. South elevation: panelled door
behind central pedimented Greek Doric portico; 12-pane
sashes with apron panels in architraves, latter linked to base
course and eaves band; similar windows to single bay
pedimented gables; cornice; central apex stack (2 corniced
diamond flues); roofed with graded slates. Modern addition to
rear. Gatepiers: inner octagonal (1 damaged) and square outer
red ashlar piers have projecting caps; curved quadrant walls,
droved ashlar garden wall extends to north.
Probably circa 1759 (date of Mansion House). Classical,
square-plan stablecourt with single storey ranges wrapped
around massive central taller block. Squared red rubble with
polished dressings and margins. Each elevation has a
pedimented central gateway rising above eaves level, with
round-arched opening reaching into open pediment, and
keystoned Diocletian window (louvered inner, blind outer
lights) on inner tower above. Some altered openings at ground
level; 12-pane sashes flanking blocked opening of gate on
south elevation: irregularly arranged openings to other
elevations. Eaves cornices; piended slate roofs, apex roof light
above tower.
Probably circa 1759 (date of Mansion House). Walled,
quadrangular garden enclosure. Droved red ashlar-coped
walls, lower, and sunk against bank at south. 2-storey, squareplan pyramidal-roofed garden house at south east corner
(now in domestic use) and adjoining later single storey
piended cottages both built of squared red rubble with
margins mostly painted: cottage has bipartites and central
door on 3-bay south elevation: slated roofs. Glass house
ranges mostly on north wall.
References:
S.R.O.RHP 4417/1 (1911 sale catalogue of Carnsalloch estate:
includes description of Gadens).
MDG20996
SANDBED
ENCLOSURE?
Late
Prehistoric
MDG20997
DUNCOW HOUSE AND
POLICIES
COUNTRY HOUSE
MDG21010
GALLABERRY
MDG21015
GLENGARRICK COTTAGE
ENCLOSURE?; LINEAR
FEATURE
HOUSE
19th Century
to 20th
Century
Unknown
MDG21101
MDG21105
WEST GALLABERRY
CARZIELD FARM
CROPMARK
SITE
Post Medieval
to 19th
Century
Unknown
Modern
Circular enclosure. Annotated on base mapsheet as possible
enclosure observed by B.Jones [Manchester Univ.] during
aerial photography runs, the site is also [just] visible on Solway
Heritage aerial photographs of the late 1990's [78_24/r2331]
as a dark circular cropmark, with a smaller circular cropmark
to the NW, just adjacent to the field boundary wall. The main
cropmark is around 30m in daimeter, with a possible break in
the ditch on the south-east, and is very similar to the
causewayed enclosure to the NNE [DG9409].
Information from DGC [AJN] 23 December 2002
Designed policy landscape around the former Duncow House.
Aerial photography shows four sides of a polygonal enclosure,
within linear cropmarks which may be field boundaries.
Roofless structure, standing to wall-head and gable-ends.
Internal evidence of fireplaces indicates two storeys. Several
of the fireplace and window openings exhibit re-used well-cut
sandstone masonry. Coursed rubble with partial sandstone
quoining, the SW corner includes half a stone from a rotary
quern.
The building is set on a terraced platform, with revetment
walls to the south and west. To the NW is an outhouse, with
animal pens on the west side. Part of this structure has been
re-roofed and is in use as a store. To the S of the house,
overlooking the steep drop to the burn, is a small circular
single storey structure, a gazebo or folly.
Information from DGC [AJN] 28 April 2003.
Linear feature noted on aerial photographs in 1976.
NX98SE 139 967 819NX 967 819 An archaeological watching
brief was undertaken in February 2002 during the excavation
of service trenches at Carzield Farm. The farm lies at the edge
MDG21107
MDG21385
GALLABERRY
KERRICKS FARM, DUNCOW
CROPMARK; PIT
BARROW; CINERARY URN;
CREMATION
Unknown
Early Bronze
Age to Late
Iron Age
of a Scheduled Antonine cavalry fort. No archaeologically
significant deposits or features were identified.Archive to be
deposited in the NMRS.Sponsors: Dr & Mrs P Jefferson.R
Conolly 2002.
NX98SE 134 9643 8283
CUCAP image (no:DH93) so no copy held.
NX 9500 8374
During the monitoring of topsoil stripping for the construction
corridor of a gas pipeline between Moffat and Dumfries,
between April and July 2002, previously unknown
archaeological remains were recorded near Kerricks Farm.
The site comprised the remains of a barrow holding two
cremations, one of which was retained within an urn. The ringditch forming the perimeter of the barrow surrounded two
central pits. The barrow had an external diameter of 8m and
an internal diameter of nearly 4m. The barrow ditch was 2m
wide and 0.5m deep and appears to have been recut.
Radiocarbon dates indicate that the initial construction of the
barrow dates to 3635±40 BP, with the recut dated to 2100±40
BP.
Within the centre of the barrow, two pits were recorded. The
central pit was 1m in diameter and 0.32m deep, and
contained the remains of a scattered cremation belonging to a
single juvenile. Radiocarbon dates from the cremated remains
indicate a date of 2900±80 BP. The second, smaller pit
measured 0.4m wide by 0.3m deep and contained a cremation
urn with contents intact. Radiocarbon dates from the
cremated remains indicate a date of 3020±75 BP. Several flat
stones were recorded within the pit, possibly forming upright
supports for a capping stone.
J Parry 2003
MDG21393
EAST GALLABERRY
FINDSPOT
Medieval to
Modern
NX 971 823
Metal-detecting along the north-eastern edge of the field and
along the track revealed 11 coins, of which the oldest is a
possible Charles 2 bawbee, the others are all 19th and 20th
century pennies and halfpennies; part of a copper alloy bell; a
19th century stamped brooch; furniture fittings; a fork; a
spent musket ball; several fragments of folded sheet lead; a
copper alloy harness buckle/loop; a lobate strap end and a
lead spindle whorl. The last two are probably medieval - there
is no indication that any of the other material predates the
late 18th century.
Information from DGC [AJN] 21 January 2005
MDG21521
PORTOBELLO FIELD,
KIRKTON
FINDSPOT
Medieval
Further work in the field recovered five coins, a Georgian
halfpenny, a halfpenny dated 1923 and the other three
possibly hammered - but too corroded for a positive
identification. A shoe buckle, two harness rings and a
decorated button - all probably from the 18th or 19th century
were also found.
Information from DGC [AJN] 21 December 2005
NX 974 810
Medieval gold ring with two agates found by metal
detectorists. No known associated features.
Information from DGC[AJN] 22 August 2005
NX98SE 153 NX 97 81
Gold finger ring with twin quatrefoil cusped bezels set with
agates. This style can be dated from the late 15th to early 16th
century, and a similar example can be seen in Hans Holbein¿s
1517 portrait of Benedikt von Hertenstein. Analytical analysis
MDG21523
MDG21592
MDG21633
MDG21634
GALLABERRY ESTATE
DUNCOW VILLAGE
PORTOBELLO FIELD,
KIRKTON
MILL LADE FIELD, KIRKTON
FINDSPOT
VILLAGE
FINDSPOT
FINDSPOT
Post Medieval
to Modern
18th Century
to Modern
Post Medieval
to 20th
Century
18th Century
to 20th
Century
has shown that the gold content is around 20 carat ¿ the
medieval Scottish gold standard; this, and the use of agates,
strongly suggest that the ring is the work of a local goldsmith
copying wider European fashions.
Claimed as Treasure Trove (TT.10/05) and allocated to
Dumfries Museum.
S Campbell 2005
NX 9672 8278
"… The two objects [shown to the NMS] suggested as parts of
dagger handles would be unsuitable for such a purpose and
one of those items - that with the crescent shape - is most
likely the tap handle from an item of tableware…Although we
do not have any direct matches for these other objects their
general appearance is consistent with objects produced by the
18-19th century brass-founding industry.
Extract of letter from NMS to finder 12 August 2007
NX 96639 83559 (centre)
Planned village founded in the late 1750s/early 1760s possibly
due to land improvements.
L Philip, 2005
NX 973 810
Collection of metal finds recovered during metal-detecting.
Mostly 19th or 20th century, including: George 2nd halfpenny,
two Victoria 3d coins, a machine-gun bullet, two military
badges, a pistol ball, and a possible 18th century token.
Information from DGC [AJN] 21 December 2005
NX 9733 8115
Collection of metal finds recovered during metal-detecting.
Mostly 19th or 20th century, including: three halfpennies
MDG21636
MDG21676
MDG21677
MDG21678
MERKLAND FIELD 2,
KIRKTON
GLENMAID MOOR
GLENMAID MOOR
GLENMAID MOOR
FINDSPOT
CAIRN
CAIRN
CAIRN
Medieval to
20th Century
Early Neolithic
to 19th
Century
Early Neolithic
to 19th
Century
Early Neolithic
to 19th
(1885, 1928, 1960), a musket ball, a pistol ball, and a small
silver childs ring - probably 20th century..
Information from DGC [AJN] 21 December 2005"
NX 9725 8140
Collection of metal finds recovered during metal-detecting.
Mostly 19th or 20th century, but including an Elizabeth I 3d of
1582, two unidentified coins probably of 17th century date
and a possible bawbee.
Information from DGC [AJN] 21 December 2005
NX 96980 89400
Two small, sub-circular cairns are located between two
streams running down the north-eastern slopes at the south
end of Glenmaid Moor, 80m apart. The upslope cairn is about
4m in diameter and about 0.35m high and the downslope one
is about 6m in diameter and about 0.5m high. Both are turfclad, but appear to consist of medium and large stony rubble.
The cairns are clearly-defined and covered with grass, rushes
and sparse bracken.
M Dalland & J O'Sullivan, 1995
NX 96791 89444
A group of four cairns spread over an area of 120 x 50m. The
cairns are between 4m and 5m in diameter and 0.2m to 0.35m
high. The cairns are mostly turf-clad with occasional stones
protruding.
The cairns are generally clearly defined and grass covered.
One of the cairns was eroded on one side exposing large
angular stones.
M Dalland & J O'Sullivan, 1995
NX 96600 89500
Century
MDG21679
MDG21680
GLENMAID MOOR
GLENMAID MOOR
STRUCTURE
STRUCTURE
18th Century
to Modern
18th Century
to Modern
A group of three cairns lying within 30m of each other. The
cairn to the north-west is 4m in diameter and appeared to
have been robbed. The two other cairns are oval, 5 x 3m and
0.2-0.3m high. The cairns are turf covered with occasional
stones protruding.
The cairn to the west is robbed but the other two seem
complete. All three of the cairns are clearly defined and
covered with grass and rushes.
M Dalland & J O'Sullivan, 1995
NX 96590 89550
A rectangular stone built structure, a possible shooting butt, is
located 20m north-west of the cairns (MDG21678). The
drystone walls are up to 0.4m high and 0.6-2m wide. The
interior is rectangular and measures 1.5 x 2m aligned north to
south with an entrance to the south. There are no clear
external wall faces, and the rounded extent of the outer limits
of the rubble walls may indicate that the structure has been
built into an existing cairn.
The structure is clearly visible, although it is partly covered
with rushes.
M Dalland & J O'Sullivan, 1995
NX 96640 89650
This structure is located 70m north of the possible shooting
butt (MDG21679). It is a small sub-rectangular structure
aligned east to west measuring 5 x 3m. The walls are about
0.8m wide, 0.15m high and consist of small to medium angular
stones. There are no visible entrances.
The wall remnants are irregular, and the interior is partly filled
with what looked like recently dumped field clearance. The
structure is partly covered with rushes, but clearly visible.
M Dalland & J O'Sullivan, 1995
MDG21681
MDG21682
MDG21683
GLENMAID MOOR
GLENMAID MOOR
GLENMAID MOOR
STRUCTURE
ENCLOSURE
CAIRNFIELD
18th Century
to Modern
18th Century
to Modern
Early Neolithic
to 19th
Century
NX 96540 89690
The structure is located 70m north-west of MDG21680, which
is very similar to this feature. This is a small sub-rectangular
structure aligned north-east to south-west measuring 5 x 3m.
The walls are low ill defined banks of stones about 0/8m wide
and 0.15m high. There is no visible entrance. It is possible that
the two features (this and MDG21680) are oval cairns which
have been robbed out in the middle, or alternatively they may
be shooting butts built into oval cairns.
The wall remnants are irregular and partly covered by rubble.
The structure is partly covered with rushes but clearly visible.
M Dalland & J O'Sullivan, 1995
NX 96610 89750
This enclosure is located 60m north of structure MDG21681. It
is oval, aligned north to south and measures 7.5 x 5m. The
walls consist of rounded banks 1m wide and 0.15m high, turfcovered with some angular stones protruding.
The wall remnants of the enclosure are low but well defined,
grass-covered, free of bracken and other masking vegetation.
There is some stone rubble inside the enclosure.
M Dalland & J O'Sullivan, 1995
NX 96457 89768
Forty one cairns are built from medium and small angular
stones, though they vary in form, size and preservation.
The cairns are from 3-7m in diameter and are up to 0.8m high.
Some are completely covered by turf, while others have areas
of exposed stone in the centre. Some of the cairns are
completely or partially robbed, and appear as circular features
with hollow centres. Most of the cairns are situated on marshy
ground covered in peat up to 0.3m deep.
MDG21684
MDG21685
GLENMAID MOOR
GLENMAID MOOR
CAIRN
STRUCTURE
Early Neolithic
to 19th
Century
18th Century
to Modern
The later description of the NMRS entry NX 98 NE 4 refers to
the location of the cairnfield as "the bracken covered east
slopes of Glenmaid Moor" and the area as "dispersed over
some 10 hectares". This description may refer to this cairnfield rather than the cairns adjacent to the Glenmaid
Plantation (MDG6230), although the present survey recorded
more than three times as many cairns as referred to by the
NMRS. The NMRS entry mentions that some of the larger
cairns have hollow centres; a description which fits some of
the cairns in this area.
The quality of preservation varies between the cairns. Some
are prominent and clearly defined while others are completely
robbed out and appear as a hollow surrounded by a low stony
bank. Some of the smaller cairns are hardly visible as they are
almost completely submerged in peat. Most cairns are free of
bracken and other masking vegetation.
M Dalland & J O'Sullivan, 1995
NX 96736 89770
Two cairns are situated on level ground, less than 10m apart.
They are both 0.2m high and 4.5-5m in diameter. Both cairns
are turf-clad with occasional stones protruding.
A third cairn is situated 50m to the south-west, on the northeastern slopes of Glenmaid Moor. This is sub-circular, 5m in
diameter and about 0.4m high. It is partly turf-clad with large
stones visible along its downslope edges.
All cairns are well clearly defined and covered in grass or
rushes.
M Dalland & J O'Sullivan, 1995
NX 96720 89780
This feature is situated on level ground 30m to the north of
the two cairns (MDG21684). It consists of a low horseshoe
MDG21686
MDG21687
MDG21688
GLENMAID MOOR
GLENMAID MOOR
GLENMAID MOOR
STRUCTURE; CAIRN
BOUNDARY BANK
CAIRNFIELD
Early Neolithic
to Modern
18th Century
to Modern
Early Neolithic
shaped grassy bank, 0.1m high. This feature measures 5 x
4.5m externally and 1 x 3.5m internally, aligned with the
opening towards the south-east. It may be the remains of a
small shieling hut.
The feature is clearly defined, but partly obscured by rushes.
M Dalland & J O'Sullivan, 1995
NX 96600 89880
This structure lies 80m north-west of the structure MDG
21685. It is aligned north-west to south-east and measures 5 x
4m externally. The north-east wall (downslope) is up to 2m
wide while the upslope wall is only 1m wide and mostly grass
covered. The walls are ill defined and up to 0.3m high. The
apparent difference in wall thickness might be due to collapse
and later dumping of rubble over part of the structure. There
is no clear entrance to the structure.
Situated 30m to the west is an oval cairn 0.5m high and 5.5. x
4.5m, aligned north-west to south-east. Into its south-east
side is a sub-rectangular depression/cut 2.5m long and 1.5m
wide. The regular shape of the cut seems to indicate that the
feature, possibly a small building, has been built into an
existing cairn rather that it just being a partly robbed cairn. It
is clearly visible and covered by grass and some bracken.
M Dalland & J O'Sullivan, 1995
NX 96573 89899
A broad bank, 25m long, 2m wide and 0.15m high, consists of
a turf-clad core of medium to small rubble. The feature is
sinuous in plan and runs downslope on the south-east side of
a small stream to the north-west of a cairn field. (MDG21688).
The dyke is very low and barely visible.
M Dalland & J O'Sullivan, 1995
NX 96580 89880
to 19th
Century
MDG21699
LANRICK HALL
ENCLOSURE; BOUNDARY
BANK
Post Medieval
Twelve cairns are located on Glenmaid Moor 750m south-east
of Auchengaith. All cairns are built from medium and small
angular stones though they vary in size, form and
preservation.
The cairns are from 3-7m in diameter, and are up to 0.6m
high. They are all covered by turf with some stones
protruding. Some of the cairns are completely or partly
robbed and appear as circular stony features with hollow
centres.
Some cairns are prominents and clearly defined while others
are completely robbed out. Most cairns are free of bracken
and other masking vegetation.
M Dalland & J O'Sullivan, 1995
An earthwork bank with associated ditch was recorded during
a walkover survey. The bank is up to 1.5m high, and forms the
eastern part of a system that connects with Lancroft Hall (sic)
to the west. The bank is in contrast to the common use of
stone dykes in the area for land division.
Within the area of the bank and many undulations and
variations in ground level, with scattered uncleared stones. A
possible roundhouse has been identified in this area. The
feature cinsists of a rough oval of large stones and changes in
ground level over an area 9m by 6m. It lies just to the west of
the above bank.
Between the above bank and its western counterpart, near
the modern field boundary to the south, is a small clearance
cairn c.2m in diameter.
Information from D.Maynard 27 February 2002
Topsoil stripping in advance of the pipeline construction
revealed that the earthern bank measured 2.2m wide and
0.5m high, was orientated north-east to south-west and was
composed of turf-covered sandy silt. This bank is part of a
larger rectabgular banked enclosure probably relating to
Lanrick Hall which lies to the north-west.
Within the enclosure to the immediate west of the southern
enclosure bank, a rough, oval-shaped earthwork was
recorded. The earthwork measures nearly 9m by 6m in
diameterand up to 0.34m high and consisted of a turf -covered
coarse stone oval bank and appears to represent a small
enclosure. Though the earthwork itself was not excavated,
and area around it was, exposing course stone and silt below
topsoil and no further archaeological features identified. The
feature was fenced-off to avoid any further impact on the
feature during the laying of the pipeline.
Nearly 30m to the south-west of the oval earthwork the
remains of a previously identified clearance cairn were
recorded. The cairn measured nearly 2m wide and survived to
a height of 0.3m, and comprised irregular sub-rounded
limestone fragments.
Information from Northern Archaeological Associates October
2002.
The system of enclosure banks to the east and south-east of
Lanrick Hall are clearly visible on the first OS 6" map of 1861
(where the farm is called Lanark Hall). By the time of the first
25" map (c.1895) only the western bank is shown, though the
entire rectangular enclosure is once again depicted on the first
National Grid map of the mid-20th century. The farm is shown
as still in use up to this date, but is depicted as disused on the
current OS maps.
MDG21832
CONNANSKNOWE,
KIRKTON
MOTTE?; WAR MEMORIAL
Medieval to
Modern
MDG21939
DUMFRIES, AE VILLAGE
FINDSPOT
Early Neolithic
to Early
Bronze Age
MDG22044
DALSWINTON
FINDSPOT
Post Medieval
Information from DGC [AJN] 26 January 2006
Parish war memorial erected on prominent mound. The
placename Conningsknowe could be derived from the Old
Norse 'konungr', which would translate as 'King's Mound',
perhaps indicating a defended site, or a supposed burial
mound. RCAHMS are of the view that the mound is a natural,
glacial feature. Metal-detecting in the adjacent field found
mostly recent material, excpet at the foot of the mound where
a medieval buckle was located.
Information from DGC (AJN) 14 January 2008
NX98NE 41 NX 983 891
Neolithic polished stone axehead found in the garden of 17
Birkieknowe, Ae Village. L 89mm x B40mm x Th 16mm; Wt
82g. Claimed as Treasure Trove (TT.41/05) and allocated to
Dumfries Museum.
A Saville 2005
NX 941 841
Worn coin of William II found in January 2008 by detectorist.
Exeter mint, last two digits of date worn away.
MDG22135
NEWLANDS HOUSE
PLANTATION BANK;
SETTLEMENT
Late
Prehistoric to
Modern
Also two sub-circular lead objects which are too uneven to be
whorls, and a plated, copper alloy button.
Information from DGC [AJN] 14 January 2008
NX98SE 154 9634 8484
What may be a settlement is situated on a slight spur to the
SSE of Newlands House. Sub-oval on plan it is enclosed by a
ditch and slight bank (RCAHMSAP 2001). It is overlain by a
plantation bank. It is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6inch map (Dumfriesshire 1861, sheet xli) and on the current
edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1989).
Information from RCAHMS (MMB) 1 November 2006
MDG23104
CARZIELD
FINDSPOT
Roman
MDG23538
KIRKTON, GENERAL
VILLAGE
Medieval(?) to
Modern
MDG26129
CARZIELD
BATH HOUSE?
Roman
NS98SE 198 96 82
NS 96 82 A range of Roman material was recovered from the
vicinity of the Roman fort at Carzield, part of a halo of extramural activity and rubbish dispersal around the fort. It
includes coins ranging from Trajan to Antoninus Pius (which
will be published in detail elsewhere) and a biconical lead
weight. The weight has a punched inscription ¿S¿ for semis,
half a Roman pound; its surviving weight (127.4g) is somewhat
under this. The material was claimed as Treasure Trove (TT
104/05) and allocated to Dumfries Museum.
Sponsor: Dept of Archaeology, NMS.
Fraser Hunter, 2006.
The date of the foundation of the village is unknown. It is first
clearly shown, as a linear settlement, on Roy's map of 1755.
Blaeu's map of 1654 suggests a settlement of Kirk Maho in
addition to the church, but it is not clear.
NX centred 9684 8203
Area of darker soil with charcoal flecks and tile fragments in
the corner of the field. Possibly the site of the bath house for
the nearby fort. Field-walked in 2012 after it was recently
ploughed.
Information from DGC (AJN) 30 July 2013
MDG23768
RIGGFOOT
FARMSTEAD
MDG23769
MERKLAND
FARMSTEAD
MDG23865
SUNNY BRAE
LODGE
MDG23916
RIDDINGSWOOD FARM
FARMHOUSE; FARMSTEAD
MDG23999
TEMPLAND HILL
FARMHOUSE; FARMSTEAD
Post Medieval
to Modern
Post Medieval
to Modern
19th Century
to Modern
Post Medieval
to Modern
Post Medieval
to Modern
Architect: Walter Newall
MDG24159
MDG24202
KIRKTON MANSE,
GATEPIERS
DUNCOW HOUSE
GATE PIER
Undated
COUNTRY HOUSE
Undated
NX98SE 109.00 97003 83281
NX98SE 109.01 97003 83494 Duncow House, North Lodge
NX98SE 109.02 97005 82625 Duncow House, South Lodge
19th century country house, demolished in the 1970's.
MDG24210
MDG24216
MDG24222
DOVECOTE
DAM
HOUSE; WALLED GARDEN
Undated
Undated
Undated
STABLE
Undated
LODGE; GATE PIER
Undated
ESTATE COTTAGE
MDG24569
MDG25379
MILNHEAD, DOVECOT
DALSWINTON HOUSE DAM
CARNSALLOCH HOUSE,
WALLED GARDEN &
COTTAGE
CARNSALLOCH HOUSE,
FORMER STABLES
CARNSALLOCH LODGE &
GATEPIERS
CARNSALLOCH HOUSE,
ESTATE COTTAGE
CASTLEHILL, GARDENS
GALLABERRY
MDG25403
DALSWINTON MILL
CAIRN
18th Century
to Modern
Undated
Roman to
Medieval
Bronze Age
MDG24227
MDG24474
MDG24535
MDG25440
DALSWINTON SAWMILL
GARDEN
FINDSPOT
SAW MILL
18th Century
to 20th
Century
Lead weight
NX 949 850.
A cairn was pointed out, across the Pennyland Burn from the
ruined Old Sawmill of Dalswinton estate, at the S side of the
steep cleugh in which the burn runs, as "the Roman Cairn": it
is not recorded but has yet to be visited.
A E Truckell 1958
NX 9476 8503
Saw mill for the Dalswinton Estate, now ruinous. It is shown as
in use on the first edition Ordnance Survey map of 1860, and
on subsequent early 20th century revisions.
Information from DGc (AJN) 3 March 2011
MDG25621
CARNSALLOCH POLICIES
LANDSCAPE PARK
MDG25627
RIDDINGWOOD HOUSE
POLICIES
NEWLANDS GATE
LANDSCAPE PARK
KNOWEHEAD,
BRICKWORKS /
Ballochmyle Brick Co
DALSWINTON CAERLAVEROCK
BRICKWORKS
Modern
ROAD
Roman
MDG25837
MDG4760
MDG4842
LODGE?
18th Century
to Modern
19th Century
to Modern
18th Century
to 20th
Century
NX 9688 8434
Site of a cottage, probably a lodge as it sits at the end of the
former drive to Newland House, shown on first edition
Ordnance Survey map of 1862. Demolished in the second half
of the 20th century.
Information from DGC (AJN) 16 November 2012
NX98SW 76 Unlocated.
The existence of a number of Roman sites between
Dalswinton and the Solway Firth leads St Joseph and others to
propose that they were connected by a road, leaving the
Torwood - Dalswinton - Crawford road (RR 4) at about
Dalswinton (NX 9384).
E Birley and I A Richmond 1942; J K St Joseph 1952; S N Miller
1952.
MDG4857
DALSWINTON CAERLAVEROCK
ROAD
Roman
This proposed road can neither be traced on the ground nor
on air photographs. There is no obvious route on this sheet,
though it would probably have kept away from the flood plain
of the River Nith.
Visited by OS (JP) 17 March 1975.
NX98SE 83 Unlocated.
The existence of a number of sites (including West Gallaberry
temporary camp: NX98SE4, at NX 963 827, and Carzield fort:
NX98SE 8, at NX 968 818) leads St Joseph and others to
propose that a Roman road ran to the Solway Firth from
Dalswinton.
E Birley and I A Richmond 1942; J K St Joseph 1952; S N Miller
1952.
MDG4892
MDG4943
TORWOOD - DALSWINTON
- CRAWFORD
TORWOOD - DALSWINTON
- CRAWFORD
ROAD
ROAD
Roman
This proposed road can neither be traced on the ground nor
on air photographs.
Visited by OS (JP) 17 March 1975.
NX98SW 72 Unlocated.
Roman
The course of the road across this sheet has not yet been
established. Visited by OS (BS) April 1975.
NX98NW 40 932 850 to 904 899 RR 4.
The course of this road has not been established with
certainty between Dalswinton fort (NX98SW 10, at NX 933
848) and Durisdeer (NS 8903). On this sheet it probably
followed much the same line as the modern road (A76) and
railway, passing the fortlet at Barburgh Mill (NX98NW 2).
J K St Joseph 1952; I D Margary 1957.
Although not proven, the course of the road across this sheet
can be safely assumed to have kept within the Nith valley and
to the E of the river. Leaving the fort at Dalswinton by the N
gate the road would almost certainly have headed through the
Auldgirth gap to Barburgh Mill as suggested by St Joseph.
From here it could just as easily have gone around the W side
of Kirkpatrick Hill (NX 8990) as the E (the route taken by the
modern road), but no evidence for either route could be
obtained on the ground.
Visited by OS (BS) April 1975.
MDG4956
CARZIELD
FINDSPOT; PIT
Early Neolithic
to Early
Bronze Age
MDG5069
GLENMAID MOOR
CLEARANCE CAIRN;
Medieval to
A Roman coin found south-east of Barburgh Mill fort was
probably associated with the line of the road, indicating that it
approached the fort slightly uphill. To the north of the fort, it
is uncertain whether the road continued along the hillside
round Whitepottes Hill, or crossed over The Lake to continue
northwards on the eastern bank of the Nith. A line of quarry
pits at Thorny Bank (MDG9641) indicates that at least one
Roman road followed this latter line.
Information from DGC [AJN] 12 Decemeber 2008
NX98SE 94 9703 8212
Bank erosion on a small stream has exposed a number of
features on the side of a low gravel ridge.
The earliest of these consists of a water-sorted deposit of
charcoal and black soil mixed with grey clay. This layer is
covered by a yellow clay, probably of fluviatile origin. The
deposit of charcoal is seen on both sides of the stream.
To the N of this is a pit, approximately 1m deep, cut into
gravel. The pit contains charcoal and several large stones.
From the base of this pit came a large sherd of pottery. The
vessel from which it came was hand-made and roughly
burnished. It is dark grey in colour and contains many quartz
grits including iron pyrites. Dr Alison Sheridan has provisionally
identified it as being Neolithic.
The pipeline easement was routed some 40m to the N of this
location, so a number of trial trenches were opened to
establish the nature of any features along the gravel ridge. No
clear picture was gained by this as there appeared to be heavy
disturbance associated with clearing out and improving the
flow of the stream, which obscured any archaeological
features.
Sponsor: Irish Gas.
D J Maynard 1993.
NX98NE 27 9687 8978
MDG5078
MDG5082
MDG5121
DALSWINTON, BANKHEAD
SMITHTOWN
CARNSALLOCH
BUILDING
19th Century
LINEAR FEATURE
Medieval to
Modern
LINEAR FEATURE
COUNTRY HOUSE; TOWER
HOUSE?
Unknown
Medieval to
Modern
Stone foundation of a rectangular building 10m by 5.8m.
J Page 1992
The site was not recorded during the course of a preafforestation survey by AOC (Scotland) Ltd, who suggest that it
may be the building (NX98NE 30) some 60m to the SE.
M Dalland and J O'Sullivan, AOC (Scotland) Ltd, 1995; NMRS
MS 738/22
NX98SW 84 930 845.
This linear cropmark lies approximately 300m to the SW of
Bankhead Cottage and runs NNW - SSE for over 200m. There
are also a number of geological cropmarkings in the area. The
cropmark appears to roughly follow the line of the modern
district boundary which has an unusual kink away from the
present river line. This boundary is also depicted on the 1st
edition of the OS 6-inch map (Dumfries-shire, 1855, sheet xli)
as being marked by boundary stones.
RCAHMSAP (RHM) 16 May 1994.
RCAHMS aerial photograph site.
On Solway Heritage AP [78_24/r2333] it would appear that
the two parallel lines are the southernmost of a group of such
lines, apparently plough furrows. It also suggests a rectilinear
structure at NX 9552 8425, and a circular feature to the SW of
that.
Information from DGC [AJN] 03 January 2003.
NX98SE 84 9708 8029.
The lands of Carnsalloch originally formed part of the
patrimony of the lairds of Dalswinton, Sir Herbert Maxwell of
Caerlaverock, having married Catherine, daughter of John
Stewart of Dalswinton, received from the latter the lands of
Carnsalloch by charter dated 10th August 1386. In the charter
Sir Herbert was only to hold the lands in pledge for his bride’s
tocher of 400 merks. Presumably the tocher was never paid,
for Sir Herbert and his descendants remained in possession
not only of Carnsalloch, but also of Dursquhen (now Dalscone)
another of the original Dalswinton lands. In the charter,
Carnsalloch is bounded by the Abbacy of Holywood (on the
west), by Dursquhen (on the south) by the Abbot of Melrose's
lands of Achincreth and Burnskath (on the east), and by the
lands of the Kirktoun of Kirkmahoe (on the north). It would
thus appear that at this time Carnsalloch comprehended
Templandhill, but not Dursquhen, which nevertheless
remained in combination with Carnsalloch
Robert, 2nd Lord Maxwell, grandson of Sir Herbert last
mentioned, granted, by charter dated at Caerlaverock 20th
March 1456/7, to his stepmother, Catherine Seton, the lands
of Carnsalloch and Dursquhen in ‘blench ferm’, with
remainder to George (first of Carnsalloch) and other children
of her marriage with Herbert, 1st Lord Maxwell, and lawful
heirs male of their bodies. Thus a separate lairdship was
formed, now including Dursquhen, and a new branch of the
Maxwell family bore the territorial designation ‘of Carnsalloch’
for over the next three centuries.
George Maxwell 9th of Carnsalloch made a deed of settlement
in 1722 on his younger children leaving them money but
excluding them from inheritance of Carnsalloch. It would seem
his older sons (none of whom married) were something of a
disappointment to him so he made a late change in the
settlement of Carnsalloch leaving it to the son of his eldest
daughter having given it in life-rent to his second son James.
The eldest son Edmund had embarrassed the family by riding
out in the 1715 rebellion but predeceased his father. George
died in 1727 and James died in 1750 quickly followed by his
brother Captain George Maxwell. Carnsalloch then passed to
the eldest grandson, James Maxwell of Kirkconnell who would
have also been a disappointment to old George had he still
been alive. James had been out with Bonny Prince Charlie’s
army in the '45 rebellion. He spent several years in exile
coming home in time to immediately dispose of Carnsalloch in
favour of the lands of Mabie closer to his home of Kirkconnell.
Carnsalloch sold to Alexander Johnston, a 'chemist of London',
who had the current house buit in 1759.
Carnsalloch is shown as a tower on Pont's map of 1595, and
with an elaborate formal planting layout on Roy's map of
1754.
Information from DGC [AJN] 7 June 2012
MDG5126
SHAW'S MOOR / Duncow
Burn
TRACKWAY
Unknown
Interior walls of older part of north wing are timber-framed,
with single-skin brick infill.
Information from DGC [AJN] 4 July 2012
NX98NE 23 NX 9571 8733 to 9567 8744.
This track is possibly that depicted on the 1st edition of the OS
map (Dumfriesshire sheet xli) 1861.
CFA 1992.
This is a track or hollow-way that runs SE-NW from an old ford
at the burn and is visible for a distance of c. 130m. It is 2-3m
wide, of variable depth (0.3-0.5m) and cut into the side of the
hill. The W side is bordered by a slight bank (0.5 - 0.8m wide
and 0.3m high). This track probably represents that depicted
on the first edition of the OS six-inch map (Dumfriesshire,
sheet xli, 1861) which shows the track running across the area
from SW to NE, crossing Duncow Burn at a 'ford'.
MDG5127
MDG6210
SHAW'S MOOR
DALSWINTON COMMON
CAIRN
MOUND; CAIRN?
Early Bronze
Age to Late
Bronze Age
Early Bronze
Age to Late
Bronze Age
Visited by CFA, December 1992.
CFA 1993; NMRS MS/625/33.
NX98NE 25 9597 8740
Cairn
This is an isolated cairn on the crest of a ridge, 180m E of the
banks (NX98NE 24) which it overlooks and 24m W of the field
dyke. It is a turf-covered mound measuring about 3m in
diameter and 0.5m in height.
Visited by CFA, December 1992.
CFA 1993; NMRS MS/625/33.
NX98NE 1 9537 8820.
(NX 9537 8820) Tumulus [NR].
OS 6-inch map, Dumfriesshire, 1st ed. (1861), sheet xli.
Although named on the 1st ed. 6" map, this feature is
published but not named on the 1" map of 1897. It is not
noticed by the RCAHM and no reference to it was found in the
relevant Name Book or elsewhere during recording.
Information from OS Recorder (DA) 2 June 1967.
MDG6213
GLEDENHOLM MOOR
CAIRNFIELD?
Early Bronze
Age to Late
Bronze Age
This near-circular grass-covered mound measures
approximately 10.5 m in diameter and 1.3 m in height. There
is no stone evident, and, although it underlies a modern wall,
it is not necessarily an antiquity.
Visited by OS (BS) 16 August 1977.
In a similar condition when visited in December 1992.
CFA 1993; NMRS MS/625/33.
NX98NE 10 976 878.
(Centred NX 97958789) Tumuli (NR) (6 shown)
(Centred NX 97658784) Tumuli (NR) (5 shown)
(NX 97588770) Tumulus (NR)
OS 6" map (1957)
There is a small, widely scattered cairnfield on the W face of a
long ridge lying E of a damp hollow on Gledenholm Moor.
Scott-Elliott notes a total of eighteen cairns, 9-12 ft in
diameter, and two ring cairns, 12 ft in diameter (noted by the
RCAHM as hut circles, sunk a foot or so in the ground).
J Scott-Elliot and I Rae 1967; RCAHMS 1920, visited 1913
MacLean describes the tumulus at NX 97588770 (which is
presumably included by Scott-Elliott in the cairnfield) as about
20 ft in diameter and 4 ft in height; it has an excavation in its N
side.
M R Dobie 1959
These cairns could not be located in an area of afforestation.
For discussion on the period and purpose of this type of
monument, see NT 05 SE 3.
Visited by OS (BS) 18 July 1977
MDG6214
ELLERSLEE
CLEARANCE CAIRN
Medieval to
Modern
A recent check in 2011 confirmed that the cairns have been
destroyed in earlier rounds of forestry planting.
Information from DGC (AJN) 21 October 2013
NX98NE 11 9756 8521.
The circle or cairn, and two circles, in a field uphill from
Auchencairn farm, as described by Johnston, are probably part
of a cluster of stone-heaps along the course of a little stream;
two at least of these heaps seem to have definite cairns under
them, but gathered field-stones almost obscure the original
structures.
M R Dobie 1959; T Johnston 1825-7
The area referred to appears to be centred on NX 9756 8521.
There are a number of depleted stone clearance heaps with
no indications of stone circles or cairns.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 22 June 1964
MDG6216
NEWLANDS
STONE CIRCLE?
Unknown
WDJ confirmed. There are no antiquities in this area and the
alleged circles and cairns are no more than the remains of
modern stone clearance.
Visited by OS (ECW) 12 June 1975
NX98NE 13 96 85.
There is the site of a stone circle a little to the SE of the
buildings at Newlands. Although the circle was destroyed for
building materials, some of the stones (or fragments) were
rolled over a nearby causeway of field stones across a hollow
in the ground.
The circle lies to the east of the road, (probably the road from
the mill - NX 968 842)
M R Dobie 1959; T Johnston 1825-7
MDG6217
THE CAIRN
MOUND
Early Bronze
Age to
Modern
Mr Duncan, the owner of Newlands, who knew of the reports
above, has never been able to locate the site of the circle. No
remains were found during field investigation, nor could the
hollow mentioned above be identified.
Visited by OS (RDL) 25 June 1964
NX98NE 14 9657 8650
On the brink of high ground at Ellerlie (?Ellerslee at NX 970
858) about 3/4 mile west of NX 98 NE 11, is an oval mound,
105 by 126 ft, a little higher at the east end.
M R Dobie 1959; T Johnston 1825-7
MDG6218
MDG6219
WHITEHALL
WHITESTANES MOOR
CAIRN; FINDSPOT
ENCLOSURE; CAIRN?
Early Bronze
Age to Late
Bronze Age
Early Bronze
Age to Late
Bronze Age
The only mound of comparable size on high ground near
Ellerslee is the pile of stones known locally (W Duncan,
Quarrelwood, Dalswinton) as "The Cairn" which is situated at
NX 9657 8650. This appears to be a mound of consolidated
stone, possibly a barrow now used for dumping modern stone
clearance.
Visited by OS (ECW) 12 June 1975
NX98NE 15 966 855
A stone axe-hammer, 10 3/4 in by 4 3/8 in., the haft-hole
partially perforated from each face, which was found lying on
a stone dyke on Whitehall Farm (NX 966 855), is in Dumfries
Museum. Earlier in the Grierson Museum, Acc No. 24.
W G Gibson 1864; G F Black 1894
Some years before, a cairn had been removed from the field in
which it was found.
J Williams 1965.
The axe-hammer is an unfinished example of Class I. It is held
in Dumfries Museum under accession number DUMFM
1965/360, and has been petrologically attributed to group
XXVII (greywacke from the Southern uplands of Scotland).
T H McK Clough and W A Cummins 1988.
NX98NE 16 Centred 9655 8805.
(Centred approx NX 965 878) A group of ten circular or
rectangular mounds or enclosures seen, some 300 yards south
of the "Tumuli" published at NX 966881, by Scott-Elliott and
McLean in 1958, perhaps form part of the cairnfield of some
100 structures since excavated in part by Scott-Elliott (see NX
98 NE 5).
M R Dobie 1959
Centred NX 96558805. A group of about 28 "cairns" is situated
200.0m south-west of the cairnfield on Whitestanes Moor (NX
98 NE 5). It lies on a gentle south-facing slope at 800 feet OD
and covers an area of about three hectares.
The cairns are similar in their size and distribution to those on
Whitestanes. There are also three small enclosures within the
group; two are oval, measuring 5.0m by 4.0m, and resemble
the sub-circular enclosures at (NX 98 NE 5) while the third is
trapezoidal and measures approximately 6.5m by 2.5m. There
are no signs of field systems and no evidence to suggest that
these cairns are sepulchral.
Surveyed at 1:10 000 (for AO records).
Visited by OS (BS) 11 August 1977
MDG6220
MDG6221
DUNCOW COMMON
DALSWINTON WOOD
CAIRN?; FINDSPOT
CAIRN?; ENCLOSED
CREMATION CEMETERY
Early Neolithic
to Late Bronze
Age
Early Bronze
Age to Late
Bronze Age
For discussion on the period and purpose of this type of
monument, see NT 05 SE 3.
NX98NE 17 962 867
NX 962 867 A single worked flint - a broken blade, finely retouched (Neolithic or Early Bronze Age) - was found in a field
NW of Millhill farmhouse near a possible ploughed-out cairn.
J Williams 1966
No trace of a cairn could be found in this area.
Visited by OS (TRG) 16 August 1976
NX98NE 18 Centred 955 869 to 9552 8696.
At NX 955 870 A group of 15 cairns, 9 feet in diameter, and
two ring cairns, 21 and 36 feet in diameter, occupy a dry
grassy ridge.
M R Dobie 1959
Centred NX 955 869. A group of about 50 small "cairns" and a
probable enclosed cremation cemetery occupy three hectares
of a low ridge at a height of 600 feet OD. The area is separated
from another cairn group (NX98NE2) 300.0m to the north
east, by marshy ground.
The cairns are similar in their size and general distribution to
others in the area (NX98NE 2 and NX98NE 5 ). Although no
definite fields can be seen there are two roughly parallel lines
of three cairns, with a 15.0m wide stretch of cleared ground
between them, and a line of five cairns bordering an area of
marsh. There is also a ruined field wall, 0.2m high and spread
to 1.5m, running around the edge of some firm rising ground.
It does not overlie any of the cairns and has no apparent
association with them. There are scatters of stones, possibly
field clearance, occupying several of the hollows on the edge
of the ridge.
At NX 9552 8696 is a probable enclosed cremation cemetery;
which is very similar in both size and appearance to that
excavated on Whitestanes Moor (NX98NE 5). It is situated on
rising ground overlooking the cairn group and measures 13.5m
in diameter over walling 3.0m wide and 0.4m high. The
southern arc has been mutilated.
The other "ring cairn" noted by McLean was not identified but
it could be one of the robbed cairns within the group. The
strong similarities between this and other nearby cairnfields is
discussed in the type site report (NX98NE 5).
Enclosed cremation c+metery surveyed at 1:10 000. Visited by
OS (BS) 10 August 1977
For discussion on the period and purpose of this type of
monument, see NT05SE 3.
At NX 9568 8692 is a single cairn just inside the survey area. It
is an outlier from the group of cairns that is located outside
the area to the SW (as described above), and is formed of a
MDG6225
DUNCOW BURN / SHAWS
MOOR
CAIRN; ENCLOSURE; FIELD
BOUNDARY?; ENCLOSED
CREMATION CEMETERY;
BOUNDARY BANK
Early Bronze
Age to Late
Bronze Age
turf-covered stone mound, measuring about 3m in diameter
and 0.4m in height.
Visited by CFA, December 1992.
CFA 1993; NMRS MS/625/33.
NX98NE 2 957 871.
(Centred NX 95555 8725) Tumuli (NR) (18 shown).
OS 6" map (1957)
At this site, the RCAHM note "a considerable group of small
cairns with a few associated hut circles of small size which
have sunk floors. Two of the cairns have quite recently been
dug into, but no record of any observations appears to have
been made".
RCAHMS 1920, visited 1913
Scott-Elliott notes a total of 69 cairns, between 9 and 18 ft
across, together with 4 ring cairns, between 15 and 48 ft in
diameter: "The largest ring cairn lies close to the burn. It is
well built of medium stones and has an entrance to the south.
The next largest lies on the top of a knoll on the ridge not far
from the dyke that borders the southern end of the field.
Among this part of the field are some low grass-covered stone
banks; whether these are of the same period is not known."
J Scott-Elliot and I Rae 1967
At NX 955 870, a second group of 15 cairns, 9 ft in diameter,
and two ring cairns, 21 and 36 ft in diameter, occupy a
neighbouring dry grassy ridge.
Mr Dobie 1959
Centred NX 957 871. A probable enclosed cremation cemetery
and a group of 70 "cairns" extending over 10 hectares along
the top of a low N-S moorland ridge at c 650 ft OD.
The cemetery at NS 9569 8721 lies on a natural terrace above
Duncow Burn on the E. It measures overall 15.5m in diameter
with a perimeter earth and stone bank 4.0m wide and 0.6m
high and an orthostated entrance 2.5m wide on the SE arc. Set
in the outer perimeter of the bank are several large stones
evidently placed for effect rather than revetment. The interior
is under marsh-grass but appears level, featureless and at the
same level as the surrounding ground. The work can be closely
paralleled with that excavated on Whitestanes Moor to the NE
(see NX98NE 5).
This cemetery lies on the central eastern edge of the large
cairn group, the majority of which are sub-circular turfcovered stone heaps averaging 2.5m in overall diameter and
0.4m in height. Many have been superficially disturbed or
spread, but their appearance and irregular distribution gives
no indication of purpose, and no trace of a field system or hut
circles was found. Five cairns were notable because of their
large overall diameters (4 to 7 metres) and the deliberate
robbing or excavation of their centres. These probably include
the two mentioned by RCAHM. On both ground and plan
there is no obvious local association between the cairns and
enclosed cremation cemetery. Two nearby cairnfields
however have similar examples see NX98NE 5 and
NX98NE 17).
The low banks noted by Scott-Elliott are evident in the
western and northern parts of the cairnfield. They comprise
fragmentary, sinuous lengths of earth and stone bank up to
0.3 m high. A short stretch links two of the mounds but
otherwise no association is evident.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
(For Scott-Elliott's other cairn group see NX98NE 17).
For discussion on the period and purpose of this type of
MDG6226
NEWLANDS
CAIRN?
Unknown
MDG6227
WHITEHALL
FINDSPOT
Early Neolithic
to Early
Bronze Age
MDG6228
MDG6229
GLENCARRICK DISTILLERY
CLONFECKLE
DISTILLERY
ENCLOSURE
18th Century
to 19th
Century
Unknown
monument, see NX05SE 3.
Visited by OS (JRL) 10 August 1977
NX98NE 20 96 85.
Missing
NX98NE 21 c.966 855.
On 8th October 1880, "Mr Rutherford, Jardington, exhibited a
fine stone celt found lately on the farm of Whitehill Kirkmahoe
(presumably Whitehall intended), on moss land, and in
proximity to bog oaks."
Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc 1884
Considerable portions of masonry survive, up to 7m+ high in
places, with a good segmental arch in the NW. Coursed rubble
with sandstone quoining. The site is described as ruinous on
the 1st edition OS map, and the extant arch suggests an easrly
19th century date for that part of the construction.
Information from DGC [AJN] 28 April 2003
The New Statistical Account for Kirmahoe parish, written in
1834, describes the distillery as "lately erected" on a
"judicious and modest scale" and that at that time it was "in
full and prosperous operation"
Information from DGC [AJN] 5 February2013
NX98NE 3 9587 8669.
NX 958867. Situated on the crest of a slight rise, about 1000
yds NE of Clonfeckle Tower and 270yds W of Duncow Burn is
an oval setting of irregularly spaced boulders which the
RCAHM and Feachem following them suggest is probably the
kerb of a long cairn, measuring some 110 by 84 ft. Miss
Henshall, however, states that there is no evidence that there
has ever been a cairn at this site and it seems more likely that
the boulders are the last vestiges of the wall of an enclosure.
RCAHMS 1920, visited 1912; R W Feachem 1963; A S Henshall
1972, visited 1962; M R Dobie 1959
MDG6230
GLENMAID MOOR
BUILDING; CLEARANCE
CAIRN
Early Bronze
Age to 19th
Century
NX 95878669 A near circular setting of stones measuring
approximately 30.0m in diameter. It is composed of 27
intermittently spaced and irregularly shaped earth- fast
boulders, of 0.6m average width. There is a 4.0m stretch of
earth-and-stone banking 0.8m wide and 0.2m high on the
north and a similar bank 10.0m long and with a single boulder
at its east end, lying to the south of the circle.
Just south of the centre of the circle is a pit 3.8m in diameter
and 1.3m deep. There is a loose boulder 0.5m by 0.5m by
0.5m within it and some probable upcast, around its rim. The
interior is otherwise featureless and undulating.
The boulders do not appear to have formed a kerb and they
are unlikely to be a stone circle. Miss Henshall's suggestion of
a ruined enclosure seems the most feasible explanation. The
off-centre pit could be the result of desultory digging.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (BS) 9 August 1977
NX98NE 4 971 892.
(Centred NX 971 892) Tumuli (NR)(5 shown)
OS 6" map (1957)
The RCAHM note a group of low, grass-covered cairns, from
14'-17' in diameter, in this area, while Gen Scott-Elliot notes
this site as a cairnfield. The RCAHM also note several stony hut
foundations, not all measurable, in association. (Similar sites in
Dumfriesshire have since been recognised as field systems eg
Stanshiel Rig NT 00 SE33).
RCAHMS 1920, visited 1913; J Scott-Elliot and I Rae 1967
Dispersed over some ten hectares of the bracken-covered east
slopes of Glenmaid Moor, are twelve clearance cairns. Several
of the larger ones, up to 7.0m across, have hollow centres and
these may have been mistaken by the RCAHM for hut circles.
There are no traces of either field walls or lynchets.
Visited by OS (TRG) 16 August 1976
A group of 36 clearance cairns were recorded on the rising
ground to the W of Glenmaid Plantation during the course of a
pre-afforestation survey by AOC (Scotland) Ltd (NMRS, MS
738/22, no.2). A rectangular building (NMRS, MS 738/22, no.1)
was noted to the S of the cairns.
M Dalland and J O'Sullivan, AOC (Scotland) Ltd, 1995; NMRS
738/22
A rectangular structure, orientated west to east, measures
11m x 3.9m within walls 1.5m thick and 0.2m high. The walls
are turf-clad with occasional angular stones protruding. There
are no visible openings. The wall remnants are irregular,
especially on the south side and somewhat formless in profile.
The structure is colonised by grasses with bracken starting to
get a foothold.
The cairns consist of medium and small angular stones, though
they vary in size, form and preservation. They are from 2.5m
to 7m in diameter and are up to 0.3m high. Some are
completely covered in turf while others have areas of exposed
stone in the centre. The quality of preservation varies
between cairns. Some are prominent and clearly defined
whilst others are completely robbed out and appear as a
circular stony area. A long dry spell before the survey had
created circular dry cropmarks in the pasture showing up the
position of these robbed out cairns. Most cairns are free of
bracken and other masking vegetation.
MDG6231
WHITESTANES MOOR
ENCLOSURE; CAIRN;
ENCLOSED CREMATION
CEMETERY
Early Bronze
Age to Late
Bronze Age
M Dalland & J O'Sullivan, 1995
NX98NE 5 967 882 to 9666 8822.
(Centred NX 9667 8819) Tumuli (NR) (17 shown)
OS 6" map (1957)
There is a cairnfield of nearly a hundred structures on
Whitestanes Moor, about 800ft OD, around the head of a burn
and near the top of the ridge.
There are some sixty cairns from 6-12 ft across,embanked
enclosures (ring cairns (J Scott-Elliot and I Rae 1967)) 12-20 ft
overall diameter; and several unclassified features. The largest
enclosure, excavated in 1962, was shown to be an enclosed
cremation cemetery, eight cremation pits containing human
bones, and two with black ash, being found within a bank, 910ft wide and 2ft high, 48ft in external diameter with an
entrance in the SW.
Artifacts found (now in Dumfries Museum) were a pygmy cup,
urn fragments, flints and half of a stone bead. A sample of
carbonised wood from the pit containing the pygmy cup gave
a Carbon-14 date of 1360 BC +/- 90.
Three ring cairns were excavated in 1964:
(a) 12 ft overall - no artifacts or structural work was found.
(b) 19 ft overall - no artifacts were found but the centre of the
site contained a stone-filled pit, 2 ft deep, which was thought
to have originally contained an inhumation burial, all trace of
which had vanished.
(c) 24 ft overall - no artifacts or structural work was found.
Two small cairns have been examined. In one, a piece of chert
was found at the old ground level, otherwise neither cairn
yielded artifacts or structural work.
Just E of and almost contiguous with the enclosed cremation
cemetery was an oval mound, 13ft x 7ft 6ins x 1ft 6ins high,
with a hollow to the W of it. (c/f NS 81 SW 1) Excavations in
1963 were inconclusive though post holes (? part of a
rectangular palisade running round the cremation cemetery),
a crude bank, a line of stain and a fire-burned area were
found. A knife-sharpener and a piece of quartz were found.
J Scott-Elliot and I Rae 1965; A E Truckell 1964; A Morrison
1968
Centred NX 967882. A group of about 35 small cairns occupy
3.0 hectares of a gentle south facing slope at the south end of
Whitestanes Moor. (See also NX 98 NE16) Within this area,
which is bounded on the north-east and south-west by marshy
ground, are twelve sub-circular "enclosures" and the Enclosed
Cremation Cemetery excavated by Scott-Elliott.
The cairns composed of turf-covered stones are generally subcircular in shape ranging in diameter from 2.0m to 4.5m; the
majority however average 3.0m in diameter and are up to
0.5m high. Some have been robbed but there is no evidence
of kerbing or other identifiable features.
The sub-circular "enclosures" are composed of earth and
stone banks, 1.0m wide and 0.2m high, and vary in size from
3.0m in overall diameter to 8.0m by 6.0m (they are
presumably the "ring-cairns" noted by Scott-Elliott). They are
larger than the average sized cairns and do not appear to have
been formed as a result of stone robbing.
Some have gaps and are feasible as hut circles but others are
situated on uneven ground; most however give no indication
of their origin or purpose. Their distribution amongst the
cairns is apparently random and shows no obvious
association.
There is no evidence of cultivation to be seen within this area.
There are two short alignments of cairns on the edges of a
natural terrace but their significance, if any, cannot be
MDG6232
GLEDENHOLM
EARTHWORK?
Unknown
discerned.
NX 96668822 The enclosed cremation cemetery is situated on
rising ground overlooking the cairn group and is generally as
described and
planned (J Scott-Elliot and I Rae 1967). There is no longer any
trace of Scott-Elliott's excavation and the interior is level and
grass-covered. The oval mound to the east is not visibly
associated but is similar in size and appearance to many of the
nearby cairns.
A group of ten circular or rectangular mounds or enclosures
seen some 300 yds south of these remains by Scott-Elliott in
1958 (M R Dobie 1959), are dealt with under (NX 98 NE 16)
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
For discussion on the period and purpose of this type of
monument, see NT 05 SE 3.
Visited by OS (BS) 11 August 1977
NX98NE 6 983 883.
Johnston describes a "Danish camp and circle" at Gledenholm
(NX 983 883). "Inside diameter 100ft, wall 14-16 ft high,
causeway round camp, gateway (4ft) on NW, stone "Justice
seat" inside."
M R Dobie 1959; T Johnston 1825-7
There is no trace and no local knowledge of this work. (R
Halliday, Gledenholm and W S Brack, forester, Ae)
Visited by OS (BS) 1 August 1977
MDG6233
WATCHMAN HILL
CAIRN
Early Bronze
Age to Late
Bronze Age
This may refer to the palisaded enclosure, NX98NE9.
NX98NE 7 964 876.
(NX 96408760 & NX 96478759) Tumuli (NR)
OS 6" map (1957)
There are a number of heather-covered cairns on the shoulder
of Watchman Hill, N of the wood and along the E and S slopes.
Scott-Elliott notes a total of twenty-six cairns, 9-18 ft across,
and two ring cairns, 16 and 18 ft in diameter. He adds that
among the cairns are four sites which may be scooped
dwellings.
J Scott-Elliot and I Rae 1967; RCAHMS 1920, visited 1913
MDG6234
NEWLANDS
COUNTRY HOUSE; CASTLE
Medieval to
Modern
NX 964876 A group of about 40 low heather-covered "cairns"
occupy an area of 8.0 hectares on the gently sloping summit of
Watchman Hill. The largest of these is 5.0m in diameter and
0.8m high.
Some of the cairns have been robbed apparently for nearby
dyke building; this may well explain the 'ring cairns' noted by
Scott-Elliott. There are many vague depressions on this
heather-covered hillside; none can be identified as occupation
sites but a number are evidently quarry scoops. There is no
evidence of cultivation in the area nor any trace of kerbing in
the cairns, which are similar though not so clearly defined as
those at Whitestanes (NX 98 NE5) to which the site can be
closely allied. Surveyed at 1:10 000.
For discussion on the period and purpose of this type of
monument, see NT 05 SE 3.
Visited by OS (BS) 1 August 1977
NX98NE 8.00 9621 8513
NX98NE 8.01 NX 9620 8518 Steading
NX98NE 8.02 NX 9615 8507 Walled Garden
At Newlands there was once "a castle, or fortlet, of great
strength if we may judge from the breadth of the remaining
portion thereof, and the great size of the stones used in the
building. A second strength has been erected near or on the
site of the old one: a cut free-stone is to be seen with the
letters E.R.H."
The situation commands an extensure view of the Vale of
Nith.
T Johnston 1825-7
NX 9621 8513. 'The present building of Newlands occupies the
site of the former structures mentioned above. Attempts by
Mr Duncan, the owner, to find the inscribed stone have failed.
Visited by OS (RDL) 25 June 1964
MDG6235
GLEDENHOLM
FIELD SYSTEM; PALISADED
SETTLEMENT
Early Bronze
Age to Roman
Visible on vertical air photograph, (OS 75/085/149-50, flown
1975).
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM) October 1996
NX98NE 9 9871 8801.
NX 987 881 Excavations were carried out at this Iron Age (A E
Truckell 1972) site, at Gledenholm from 1966-8.
They revealed a single palisade trench, of unknown length,
defining an oval enclosure 125' wide. A small palisade trench
and post holes were also found. A thumbnail scraper and
other flints were found on the floor of a hut; a sherd of coarse
black pottery similar to that from the hill-fort at Burnswark,
and a few sherds of orange-coloured pottery of unknown type
have also been found. Burnt wood from the palisade is to be
submitted for C14 dating.
Scott-Elliot (J Scott-Elliot and I Rae 1967) notes a very small
field of cairns, 4'- 9' in diameter (presumably field clearance
heaps), and stone banks possibly forming agricultural
enclosures in the vicinity.
Forestry Commission ploughing in the near future will result in
the total destruction of the site (L Masters 1968).
J Scott-Elliot 1966
NX 98718801 The site of this palisaded homestead is situated
on a low hillock, in a clearing within a forest. The excavation
has been left open but neither the palisade trenches nor the
post holes are now visible. There is no trace of the small cairns
referred to by Scott-Elliott, which have presumably been
destroyed by afforestation. Visited by OS (TRG) 19 August
1976
MDG6237
ST BRIDE'S CHAPEL
CHAPEL
Medieval to
19th Century
Excavation plans and slides supplied to JP in 1990 by Major
General Scott Elliott have been donated to NMRS. No site
documentation has been forthcoming. The site has never been
properly written up. JB 24/6/94. See short report in J. Scott
Elliot "Dowsing, one man's way" p.139-141. British Society of
Dowsers, 1990. JB 11/7/94.
NX98NW 10 9380 8526
(NX 93808526) Chapel (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1957)
The site of the chapel of St Bride, mentioned in 1547.
A C Smith 1947
MDG6240
AULDGIRTH BRIDGE
FINDSPOT; CAIRN
Early Bronze
Age to Late
Bronze Age
No trace exists.
Visited by OS (BS) 12 June 1975
NX98NW 13 911 863.
An axe-hammer, 7 in by 3 1/2 in, found in December 1862, by
railway surfacemen while removing a large cairn in a field near
Auldgirth Bridge (NX 911863) is in Dumfries Museum (F E S
Roe 1967), having been transferred from Thornhill Museum.
W G Gibson 1864
There is no trace of this cairn and no reference to it on an
MDG6242
CASTLE ROYAL /
'Earthwork'
NATURAL FEATURE?
Unknown
estate map of 1840. The axe-hammer is still in the museum.
Visited by OS (BS) 12 June 1975.
This Class I axe-hammer is held in Dumfries Museum under
accession number DUMFM 1965/368. It has been
petrologically attributed to group XXVII (greywacke from the
Southern uplands of Scotland).
T H McK Clough and W A Cummins 1988.
NX98NW 15 938 852.
Johnston in 1825-7 describes a circular camp at Castle Royal
(name: NX 938 852); A McLean and A E Truckell, who visited
the site about 1958, say that Castle Royal is "a meadowland
ridge, the top of which seems to have been scarped slightly
and which is rather stonier than the rest of the meadow.
Across the north end of the scarped area a shallow but distinct
trench can be traced. The impression is of an earthwork
almost completely ploughed away."
M R Dobie 1959
The name "Castle Royal" applies to a low ridge which bears no
surface indications of an earthwork.
Visited by OS (BS) 11 June 1975
MDG6243
DALSWINTON, OLD
VILLAGE
VILLAGE
Medieval to
19th Century
See DG8557 / NMRS NX98NW 41 for further evidence.
Dumfries and Galloway SMR: Information entered 23/03/2000
NX98NW 16 940 850
(Area: NX 940 850) The old village of Dalswinton used to lie
between the present Dalswinton village and the Old Gate of
Dalswinton. It consisted of one row of houses, "planned as if
half- fortified".
(T Johnston 1825-7, MS. in NMAS)
No trace of the old village could be found during
perambulation of the area concerned. The forester of
Dalswinton Estate, Mr B Crosby of Douganstyle, Dalswinton
stated that there are some traces of ruined buildings in High
Craig Wood (centred NX 940 852) but these could not be
located in the dense undergrowth.
Visited by OS (RDL) 23 June 1964
MDG6250
DALSWINTON
FINDSPOT
MDG6261
MDG6264
DALSWINTON-AULDGIRTH
SHAWS
CAIRN?
FINDSPOT
MDG6267
MULLACH
BEACON; FORT
Early Bronze
Age to Late
Bronze Age
Bronze Age (?)
Medieval to
19th Century
Early Bronze
Age to 19th
Century
Reported as being in Maryfield Wood, astride the main path,
by local sources (including the current ghillie of Dalswinton
Estate). The village was apperntly known as Connel Vilage.
Information from DGC [AJN] 22 May 2008
NX98NW 22 93 85.
A fragment of a Late Bronze Age spearhead (? class v), found
at Dalswinton (NX 9385) was donated to the N M A S in 1924
by J Mackenzie (Acc No DG 86)
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1925; J M Coles 1962
NX98NW 32 92 85 to 93 85.
Finds recovered during a metal-detector survey
NX98NW 6 9291 8698.
(NX 9291 8698) Camp (NR)
OS 6" map (1957)
A vitrified fort occupies the summit of Mullach, a prominent
hill (listed as a beacon stance in 1448, in the Acts of the
Parliament of Scotland, 716). The fort is oval in shape, having
two concentric walls about 30m apart. The enclosed area
measures about 91m by 74m and several masses of vitrified
stone are visible in the rubble ruins of the walls. A narrow gap
through the walls in the SE probably indicates an entrance.
The site, which has not been excavated, is likely to date from
some time between the 8th and 4th centuries BC.
E W MacKie 1975; RCAHMS 1920, visited 1913
MDG6269
THE BELT
FORT
Early Bronze
Age to Roman
The remains of this fort, in an area formerly afforested and
now covered in dense bracken, comprises two concentric
stone walls 28.0m apart. The inner wall, enclosing an oval area
110.0m E-W by 120.0m transversely is visible only in the
southern half as a grassed-over stony scarp 0.3m high. The
better preserved outer walls survives in the southern half as a
grassy bank 2.0m wide and 0.5m high and in the northern half
as a slight scarp and parch mark.
No vitrified stone was seen in either of the walls nor were any
facing stones visible. The entrance in the SE is obscured by
bracken. Resurveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (TRG) 19 August 1976
NX98NW 8 9323 8582.
(NX 9323 8582) Earthwork (NR)
OS 6" map (1957)
A stone-walled promontory fort with several hut foundations
in the interior.
RCAHMS 1920
The ill-preserved remains of a stone-walled fort occupy the
edge of a high terrace and measure internally 50.0m E-W by
30.0m. The remains consist of a single wall around the N, S
and W sides with a double wall and a narrow passage entrance
on the SE. There are no further defences visible and no trace
of huts in the interior, the whole being covered in dense
vegetation.
Surveyed at 1:2500 on permatrace.
Visited by OS (BS) 12 June 1975
MDG6270
THE BELT
HUT CIRCLE?; EARTHWORK
Late
Prehistoric
Visible on air photographs (RAF APs:541(A)397:48;4250)
NX98NW 9 934 858.
The field (centred NX 934 858) E of the Stone Fort, The Belt
(NX 98 NW 8), where hut circles and a "Danish Camp" were
seen by T Johnston in 1825-7, was examined about 1958 by A
McLean and A E Truckell. They saw a suggestion of cobblerevetted terrace, and other stones which may have been the
remains of hut foundations, in the turf of the terrace. Just to
the E (M R Dobie 1959) or NE (A E Truckell 1958) was a heap of
ploughed out stones, seeming to lie on more weathered
stones with a suggestion of an encircing kerb. "This, whatever
it is, is probably Johnston's 'Camp'."
A Ps show evidence of a possible sub-rectangular enclosure at
NX 933 858. (RAF.541.A.397.F20:4250-1)
MDG6271
LONGBANK
FORT
Iron Age
The field referred to is at present under young crop and
nothing significant can be seen. Examination of the A Ps
suggests that the markings are all natural.
Visited by OS (BS) 12 June 1975
NX98SE 1 9600 8455.
(NX 9600 8455) The crop-mark of an enclosure is visible on air
photographs at Longbank, Kirkmahoe.
The site occurs on the summit of a small hill. The only possible
indications of an enclosure visible on the ground are two slight
humps at the base of the stone dyke, at NX 9598 8461 and NX
9599 8459, and traces of two immeasurable spread banks for
a short distance to the SW of the dyke.
Visited by OS (RDL) 25 June 1964
MDG6272
MDG6273
KIRKMAHOE / KIRKMAHOE
PARISH CHURCH/ LAKE
BURN/ 'THE LAKE'
KIRKMAHOE PARISH
CHURCH
FINDSPOT
Early Bronze
Age to Roman
NX98SE 10 c. 972 815.
(Approx: NX 972 815). One end of a dug-out canoe was found
in The Lake, about 300 yards from the west corner of
Kirkmahoe churchyard, by Mr Charles Brown and another
man.
The portion recovered is 5 feet long by about 18 inches wide
by 5 inches deep. The wood is oak.
It may be preserved in the Village Hall.
W McDowall 1921
FINDSPOT
Early Neolithic
to Early
Bronze Age
This portion of canoe was in the village hall in the 1920's, but
its present whereabouts is unknown. (Mrs Campbell,
Meadowpark, Kirkton) Visited by OS (WDJ) 23 June 1964.
In 1919 the remains of a logboat were found when the burn
known as 'the Lake' or Lake Burn was being deepened at a
point about 300 yards (275m) W of Kirkmahoe parish church.
The locality is one of hilly clayland at an altitude of about 15m
OD, above the haughland of the River Nith.
One end of the boat was found split into two parts, the longer
of which measured 5' (1.5m) in length. The timber was
identified as 'oak' and was 'greatly decayed', but the beam
appeared to be about 1'6" (0.5m) and the surviving 'depth'
about 5" (125mm). The form of the surviving end was a
rounded point externally and a rough square internally.
Although it was intended to preserve the boat at the village
hall, there is no record of its survival.
W McDowall 1921; R J C Mowat 1996.
NX98SE 11 974 815.
NX 974 815. A Group VI (Langdale) polished stone axe, found
by Master Anderson, Kirkton, in 1966 by the footpath behind
Kirkmahoe Church, is still in his possession.
MDG6276
ST BLANE'S CHURCH
CHURCH
Early
Medieval to
19th Century
A E Truckell 1966; J Williams 1970
NX98SE 14 9888 8180.
(NX 9888 8180) St Blane's Ch (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1948)
There was a church dedicated to St Blane in this parish in the
11th century.
P Dudgeon 1882; G Chalmers 1824
Half a mile east of the present parish church there is an
artificial earth mound on which are the foundations of a
building about 40 feet by 33 feet, with a paved doorway to the
north.
To the east and south-east excavations in four "graves" in the
supposed burial-ground revealed only a much-rusted iron
battle-axe.
T Johnston 1825-7
The late Cameron Smith considered that the tradition of a
chapel dedicated to St Blain at Kilblean was quite unfounded
and was based on the Statistical Account of 1835, followed by
the Ordnance Survey.
Dr. R C Reid, however, records a Kyrkblane vicarage from
Bagimant's Roll in the 13th century. (Scot Hist Soc Misc Vol.5,
123)
M R Dobie 1959; Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist
Antiq Soc 1926;
The site of this church is marked by a slight mound, to all
appearance natural, in an area of marshy ground. No trace of
any foundations were seen. No further information regarding
the dedication was found.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 23 June 1964
MDG6279
KNOWHEAD
CAIRN
Early Neolithic
to Late Bronze
Age
St Blane's Church/Chapel Site: Small artificial raised platform,
approximately 3 ft in height, forming an "island" in the marsh
area at the E end of a promontory. There are indications of a
possible ditch separating the "island" from the promontory.
There are foundations of a structure, oriented NE-SW,
measuring approximately 40 ft by 25 ft.
J Williams 1969
NX98SE 17 988 818.
A cairn at KnoweHead on a ridge half-a-mile SW of the church
at Kilblane - NX 98 SE 14 - and half-a- mile east of the parish
church was excavated by Johnstone in July 1827, who found
therin a short cist containing the burnt bones of two bodies
and, to the south of the cist, a large whinstone, and the bones
of a third burial "put carefully into little openings, or niches in
the Cairn, a little here, and there."
The ridge is most probably that over-looking the Ballochmyle
Brick Works alongside the Locharbriggs- Riddingwood road.
There is now no sign of any cairn on this ridge.
M R Dobie 1959; T Johnston 1825-7
No further information found during field investigations.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 24 June 1964
MDG6281
QUARRELWOOD
CAIRN?
Early Bronze
Age to Late
Bronze Age
Top two metres removed for gravel extraction in late 1960's.
Information from local farmer at Auchencrieff. (DGSMR June
2005)
NX98SE 2 9582 8411.
(Area: NX 957 841) 'There are two "Druidical temples" on the
north side of the King's Road about a mile from Galloberry
towards Dalswinton, on a ridge of the farm and close to the
village of Quarrelwood. Both are formed of gathered field
stones.
The one to the east is about 250 feet in circumference and 10
feet in height. When "the centre was searched into" traces of
fire, and fat, loamy earth, and a human tooth were found.
Removal of some of the stones revealed a circle of large
stones within the cairn.
About 550 feet to the NW is another "Temple" about 226 feet
in circumference but only 30 inches high, having been much
robbed. A half-circle of large stones was observed 5 feet
within the outer edge of the cairn.
One of these cairns may be a circular structure 18 yards in
diameter and up to 10 feet high, in the second field south of
Smithfield farm. The raised interior is flat and slightly
hollowed. It is known locally as "the Roman Hill".
M R Dobie 1959; T Johnston 1825-7
MDG6284
KILBLANE
CASTLE?
Medieval to
19th Century
At NX 9582 8411 is the north-westerly of the two features
described. It is now only 1.0m high and is sub-circular
measuring overall 22.0m NW/SE by 20.0 m transversely. It is
flat-topped and of stoney construction. The south-easterly
'cairn' may have been on the summit of a hillock c. 192-0m to
the SE of this but it may have been situated on, or have
formed part of, a small natural gorse-covered knoll at NX 9603
8402. This knoll, c. 5.0m high, is surrounded by the remains of
a modern dyke and has been quarried into on the NW side.
Cairn Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (RDL) 25 June 1964
NX98SE 22 98 81.
There is the site of a castle or strong fortlet a few hundred
yards to the west of the church at Kilblane (NX 98 SE 14). It is
surrounded by a large pond and the site of the drawbridge is
still to be seen: "the extent of the garden is clearly defined."
T Johnston 1825-7
This may be the same as AM 340 (NX 98 SE 24). "The old farm
buildings of Kilblane (NX 987 818) now derelict are on the
edge of a swamp which may have been a pond 100 years ago.
An irregular ridge projects into this swamp and, but for a few
feet, cuts it into two sections. The ridge may be a fort - the site
fits the description - but it is now completely grassed over."
M R Dobie 1959
MDG6285
BURNTSCARTH GREEN
FARM
STONE CIRCLE?
Unknown
No trace of a castle or fort was seen in the vicinity of the site
of Kilblane church. The ridge mentioned by Dobie appears to
be on the one running in a SE direction from the farm-house at
Kilblane. It is a natural ridge with no trace of any earth-works
on it.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 23 June 1964
NX98SE 23 9898 8018.
There is a circle about 30 paces in diameter on the south side
of the road from Knowe Head cairn (NX 98 SE 17) to
Locharbriggs, on the farm of the Green (occupied by Mr
Mitchell).
T Johnston 1825-7
MDG6286
KIRKHOLM
CAIRN?
Early Bronze
The farm of Green is Burntscarth Green farm (NX 9898 8018)
known locally as the 'Green' (Mr Dent, Hillhouse,
Locharbriggs). Most of its land, between the steading and the
Knowehead-Locharbriggs road, is now covered by dwellinghouses. No trace of any circle was seen.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 24 June 1964
NX98SE 24 98 81.
Age to Late
Bronze Age
MDG6287
CASTLEHILL
EARTHWORK?
Unknown
Many "written stones", suggesting the existence of a druidical
temple, are to be found just to the west of Kirk Holm, a "flat
and plain-lying field" to the north-ward of the church of
Kilblane (NX 98 SE 14). (The author regards cairns and circles
alike as "druidical temples").
T Johnston 1825-7
No further information found.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 23 June 1964
NX98SE 25 97 84.
A circle on Castlehill Farm, less than a quarter-mile from
Duncow camp (NX 98 SE 5), consists of a circular area 100 feet
in diameter surrounded by a bank 25 feet broad with an
entrance on the east.
T Johnston 1825-7
Not located; enquiries at Castlehill farm proved negative.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 22 June 1964
MDG6288
CARNSALLOCH GATE
INSCRIBED STONE?
Unknown
The area in question has been thoroughly perambulated, but
no trace of a circle, as described above, has been found. (A E
Truckell, Dumfries Museum).
Visited by OS (EGC) 6 August 1964
NX98SE 26 9768 8051.
There is a "hieroglyphick stone" at or near Carnsalloch gate,
below an oak, by the highway.
M R Dobie 1959; T Johnston 1825-7
Several oak trees line the modern road at the entrance to
Carnsalloch, and several more have been cut down, but no
trace of any inscribed stone was found.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 23 June 1964
MDG6289
CASTLEHILL
EARTHWORK?
Unknown
New driveway inserted 1999, possibly destroying the site.
Dumfries and Galloway SMR: Information entered 28/03/2000
NX98SE 27 97 84.
There is a circle on Castlehill Farm a quarter-mile west of the
circle (NX 98 SE 25), near Duncow camp, composed of field
stones and raised 6 or 8 feet from the ground; it is hollowed
on the top and is about 100 feet in circumference.
T Johnston 1825-7
Not located; enquiries at Castlehill farm proved negative.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 22 June 1964
MDG6290
AUCHENCAIRN
CAIRN?
Unknown
The area in question has been thoroughly perambulated but
no trace of a circle, as described above, has been found. (A E
Truckell, Dumfries Museum)
Visited by OS (EGC) 6 August 1964
NX98SE 28 98 84.
Near the farmstead of Auchencairn there are the slight
remains of a large druidical circle or cairn. Most of the stones,
many bearing "hieroglyphicks", are now incorporated in
houses and walls.
T Johnston 1825-7
MDG6291
DUNCOW
CINERARY URN?
Early Bronze
Enquries at Auchencairn farm proved nagative. Nothing was
seen in the vicinity of the steading to suggest a stone-circle or
cairn.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 22 June 1964
NX98SE 29 96 83.
Age to Late
Bronze Age
MDG6293
MDG6294
GALLABERRY ESTATE
FOREGIRTH FARM
CAIRN
CROSS INCISED STONE;
STONE CIRCLE
Early Bronze
Age to Late
Bronze Age
Early Neolithic
to Early
Medieval
An urn containing possible ashes was dug up (but broken) in a
shoemaker's garden at Duncow 'lately'.
NSA 1841 (J Wightman)
NX98SE 30 96 82.
There was a large cairn, about 200 ft in diameter, and many
feet high, on the estate of "Gallaberry", to the south of the
King's Road to Dalswinton. About 1814, when the cairn was
removed, an empty cist was found at the base of it.
T Johnston 1825-7
No further information found.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 29 June 1964
NX98SE 31 95 83.
There are two upright stones, the remains of a stone circle, on
the farm of Foregirth.
The larger stone, a whinstone measuring 5 feet by 32 inches
by 19 inches, has a number of marks cut on it and, on its
smoother side, a cross 14 inches long by 12 inches wide, 1 1/4
inches broad and 1/2 inch deep. On the south face (the stone
was set up by Johnstone and the cross set towards the east)
are some possible cup-marks about an inch in diameter, in a
line from top to bottom.
T Johnston 1825-7
The two stones are no longer visible.
M R Dobie 1959
NX 9532 8366. Stone, as described by Johnston.
Visited by OS (RD) 25 June 1964
No trace of stone circle. Cross-incised boulder, could be 6th8th century. Recorded at Foregirth in 1825. Re-discovered in
August, 1964. A E Truckell 1964
MDG6295
MDG6296
MDG6297
BRAEHEAD
WHITEHILL
CARNSALLOCH
CAIRN
FINDSPOT
SIGNAL STATION?;
PLANTATION BANK
Early Neolithic
to Late Bronze
Age
Iron Age
Medieval to
Modern
The given NGR (9532 8366) indicates the spot where the stone
was found in 1964. By 1995 it was behind a barn at 9534 8374.
Although the farmer knew exactly where it was, he recognised
that it might be inadvertently lost. He agreed to consider
moving it to a safer location. JB 27/10/95.
NX98SE 32 95 84.
A cairn near the dwelling-house on the farm of Braehead was
removed about 1810: beneath the heap was found a stone
coffin within which were the remains of a large body over six
feet in length.
T Johnstone 1825-7
This site was not located. No further information. Braehead is
at NX 9504 8474.
Visited by OS (RDL) 25 June 1964
NX98SE 33 9813 8092.
A small brass of Valentinian was found in a mole hill on
Whitehill farm (NX 9813 8092), about 1903.
G Macdonald 1934
NX98SE 34 9753 8018.
(NX 9753 8018) A Roman signal station is visible on an air
photograph, 460 m ESE of Carnsalloch.
SDD List
Tree ring. See O S 6" 1st edition.
MDG6299
MDG6300
MDG6301
KIRKTON,ST MATTHEW'S
WELL
CHAPEL HILL
DUMLO HILL
SPRING
CHAPEL?
EARTHWORK?
Unknown
Annotated on air photograph by A L F Rivet
The plantation bank is depicted on the 1st edition of the O S 6inch map (Dumfries-shire, 1861, sheet XLI) at the same
location as the previously suggested Roman signal station.
Information from RCAHMS, 8 December 1997 (GJW).
NX98SE 36 975 812.
Medieval
There is a spring, dedicated to St Matthew, at Kirkton (NY 975
812).
J M Mackinlay 1893
NX98SE 37 966 836.
Unknown
A chapel is supposed to have stood on or near Chapel Hill
(name: NX 966 836), a small hill on the W side of Duncow
village. (See also NX 98 SE 38.)
Name Book 1855
NX98SE 38 9666 8350.
Though the NSA mentions "the small doon called the Chapelhill" (Chapel Hill: NX 966 836 - see NX 98 SE 37), the reference
is probably to Dumlo Hill (NX 9666 8350).
NSA 1841 (J Wightman)
MDG6302
MILNHEAD
DOVECOTE; COUNTRY
HOUSE; WALLED GARDEN
Post Medieval
to Modern
The latter is described in the O N B as a small oval hill, rising
abruptly and regularly from the level plain; it is apparently of
artificial origin.
It is highly probable that there was some "ancient fortress"
here. The nearby village of Duncow (see NX 98 SE (M) 10) is
said to take its name from this hill.
Name Book 1855
NX98SE 39 9705 8106.
(NX 9705 8106) Milnhead: a three-storeyed, early 18th
MDG6303
MDG6304
MDG6305
MILNHEAD
MILNHEAD, GATE PIERS
GALLABERRY
GARDEN WALL
GATE PIER
TEMPORARY CAMP
Unknown
Unknown
Roman
century house. Nearby is a two-storeyed stone dovecot, with a
slate roof, of late 17th or early 18th century date.
SDD List
NX98SE 39.1 970 810.
NX98SE 39.2 9719 8110.
NX98SE 4 centred 9636 8272.
Published as CAMP (R) (Site of)(1948); ROMAN CAMP (R) (site
of), Fort (NR) (site of) (1969)
OS 1948; OS 1969.
A Roman temporary camp was visible in parchmarks in June
1939. The camp, 1 1/3 acres in extent, is situated on a gravel
terrace behind the farm buildings of W Gallaberry. Excavations
carried out by St Joseph in 1952 established that the camp
measured 64m by 110m, with an entrance 6m wide in the S
side.
O G S Crawford 1939; J K St Joseph 1952
MDG6306
DUNCOW, WINDMILL /
Castlehill Farm
WINDMILL
Post Medieval
to 19th
Century
There are no surface indications of these features and the
area is under pasture at present.
Visited by OS 1964
NX98SE 40 9741 8377.
(NX 9741 8377) The stump of a tower windmill, some 30 ft
high, ground diameter 20 ft, tapering to about 12 ft, stands
about 1/2 mile NE of Duncow House. The structure is massive,
built of sandstone rubble. There are two doors, one of which
has been blocked up. This is a good example of an early tower
mill, dating from the late 17th or early 18th centuries; it is in
good condition, though open to the weather.
I L Donnachie and N K Stewart 1967.
(Location cited as NX 974 838). Duncow, late 17th to early
MDG6307
WALLAMHILL
MOUND; CHAPEL
Medieval to
19th Century
18th century. The squat tapering rubble stump of a tower
windmill.
J R Hume 1976.
NX98SE 41 977 808.
(Name: NX 977 8081) Wallamhill is a small artificial hill on
which trees are growing. The Knights Templars are supposed
to have had a chapel near it. A window frame has been dug up
near this hill and is now in one of the out- houses at
Templandhill farm (NX 978 806). (The O N B sketch is of a
window, similar to those in Kilbrannan Chapel, Skipness (NR 95
NW 6) dated by the R C A H M to the late 13th or early 14th
century.)
Name Book 1855
MDG6311
MDG6313
MDG6315
MDG6316
WEST GALLABERRY
GATESIDE BRIDGE
CARZIELD
CASTLE HILL
LINEAR FEATURE;
ENCLOSURE;
PROMONTORY FORT?;
ENCLOSURE?
Iron Age
The Knights Templars were introduced to Scotland by David I
(1124-53); the order was suppressed in 1312, most of their
possessions passing to the Knights Hospitallers. There are
numerous references to alleged houses of Templars in
Scotland. These are exaggerated accounts of what were
merely Temple lands. (No mention is made of this particular
site.) I B Cowan and D E Easson 1976
NX98SE 45 9627 8273.
LINEAR FEATURE
ENCLOSURE
FINDSPOT; EARTHWORK
Unknown
Roman
Early Neolithic
Part of what may be a promontory or circular enclosure and
three sides of a smaller rectangular enclosure are visible as
cropmarks to the W of the Roman temporary camp (NX 98 SE
4). A linear cropmark runs from NE to SW in front of the
entrance to the camp.
O G S Crawford 1939
NX98SE 47 961 836.
NX98SE 49 970 819.
NX98SE 5 9742 8427
to Roman
(NX 9742 8427) Fort (NR)
OS 6" map (1948)
This oval fort, some 300 feet by 220 feet, occupies the summit
of a rounded eminence immediately NW of Castlehill House.
The remains are visible only on the south and west. A narrow
segment on the south has been cut off by a dyke and lies
within a wood, and here the defences consist of a slight inner
rampart crowning a scarp some 6 to 7 feet in height, at its
base a trench some 20 feet broad and widening as it passes
westward. In places the trench has been filled up to a
considerable extent, and looks like a terrace, but it becomes
clearly defined to the westward, with a slight mound forming
the counterscarp. It does not appear to have been continued
along the steep north face. The entrance, which is from the
SW, is distinct, opening into a slight depression.
RCAHMS 1920
The British camp of Duncol or Castle Hill has two entrances,
one on the west, the other on the east, the latter being not so
clear. A flint arrowhead was found here.
T Johnston 1825-7; M R Dobie 1959
Miscellaneous earthwork.
R W Feachem 1956
The remains of this earthwork are generally as described by
RCAHMS. It is probable that the inner rampart was continued
round the North and East sides, although no trace of it
remains.
Revised at 25"
Visited by OS (WDJ) 22 June 1964
MDG6317
MDG6318
WEST GALLABERRY
GALLABERRY
UNENCLOSED
SETTLEMENT; PALISADED
SETTLEMENT
Early Bronze
Age to Roman
CURSUS?
Early Neolithic
to Early
Bronze Age
MDG6319
BELLHOLM
BUILDING; FARMHOUSE
MDG6320
DUNCOW MILL
WATERMILL
MDG6321
DUNCOW STABLES
STABLE
MDG6322
MDG6323
DUNCOW SMITHY
WEST DUNCOW
BLACKSMITHS WORKSHOP
FARM BUILDING
MDG6325
CHAPEL
MDG6326
THE MOUNT / Carnsalloch
Chapel
TOWNFOOT
MDG6327
CASTLEHILL
STANDING STONE
BARN
Medieval to
Modern
19th Century
to Modern
19th Century
to Modern
Unknown
19th Century
to Modern
19th Century
to Modern
19th Century
to Modern
Early Neolithic
to Early
Bronze Age
NX98SE 50 9643 8270.
A 'ring-groove' house is situated within a palisaded enclosure,
11m in diameter, visible as cropmarks to the E of the Roman
temporary camp (NX 98 SE 4 ).
At least two enclosed round houses are also visible on air
photographs. O G S Crawford 1939
NX98SE 51 963 827.
'A preliminary resistivity survey, in the form of several
traverses, was made at this site which is known from aerial
photographs and some exploratory excavation. Good
anomolies were obtained on the line of the cursus.'
J Williams and G Anderson 1971
NX98SE 52 960 821.
NX98SE 53 9690 8422 to 9688 8423.
NX98SE 54 9679 8354.
Stables
'B' listed [HS Ref:10233], see DGC Listed Building database for
further details.
NX98SE 55 9675 8347.
NX98SE 56 966 836.
NX98SE 58 9746 8095.
NX98SE 59 9816 8470.
NX98SE 6 9786 8400
There is a standing stone, 3 ft 6 ins high by 2 ft 10 ins broad by
1 ft 6 ins thick, in a meadow some 300 yards to the east of
Castlehill.
'The fact that the small circular plantation immediately
adjacent goes by the name of "Peerie's Kist" is not without
significance'. The stone is typical of those from stone circles.
RCAHMS 1920, visited 1913.
NX 9786 8400. A plain block of sandstone 1.2m high by 0.8m x
0.4m. In the centre of its E face is a small drill-hole and in the
bottom N corner of the E face is a small round hollow c. 0.05m
in diameter, possibly a cup-mark.
The name "Perie's Chest ('Peerie's Kist' RCAHMS) does not
apply to the circular plantation but an irregular plantation
some 120.0m to the west of the circular plantation.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 22 June 1964
MDG6328
SHAWEND
BARN
MDG6329
SMITHTOWN
FARMSTEAD; FARMHOUSE
MDG6330
WELLINGTON BRIDGE
BRIDGE
MDG6333
MEADOWPARK
HOUSE
MDG6334
BROOMDYKES
CAIRN?
MDG6337
WEST GALLABERRY
FARMSTEADING AND
HORSEMILL / KIRKTON;
HORSE ENGINE;
FARMSTEAD
19th Century
to Modern
19th Century
to Modern
19th Century
to Modern
18th Century
to Modern
Early Bronze
Age to Late
Bronze Age
18th Century
to Modern
The stone has been removed from the ground and relocated
to the edge of the plantation.
Information from DGC {JB} 03 March 1990
NX98SE 60 9801 8139.
NX98SE 61 957 843.
NX98SE 62 9715 8120.
NX98SE 65 97 81.
NX98SE 66 98 83.
RCAHMS source data missing.
NX98SE 69 9639 8263
WEST GALLOBERRY
MDG6338
MDG6340
MDG6345
MDG6346
CASTLE HILL
CHAPEL HILL
QUARRELWOOD
DUNCOW
STANDING STONE
COMMEMORATIVE STONE
VILLAGE
DESERTED SETTLEMENT
Early Neolithic
to Early
Bronze Age
Medieval to
19th Century
Medieval to
Modern
Medieval to
19th Century
'A' listed [HS Ref: 10281], see DGC Listed Buildings database
for further details
Dumfries and Galloway SMR: Information entered 28/03/2000
NX98SE 7 9736 8419.
There is a peculiarly-shaped standing stone among the trees
on the slope to the south of Castlehill fort. It is 3 feet 7 inches
high.
RCAHMS 1920
NX 9736 8419. As above. No markings were seen on the stone.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 22 June 1964
NX98SE 73 966 836
King James V and his attendants spent the night at Duncow
village when on their way to Amisfield Tower (NX98SE 13).
Until about 30 years ago (c.1804), a large stone near Chapel
Hill (NX 966 836) marked the site of the cottage where the
king slept.
NSA 1845 (J Wightman)
NX98SE 78 960 842
The village of Quarrelwood now consists of about a dozen
houses; it was formerly of considerable extent.
Name Book 1855
NX98SE 79 966 835
Duncow: an old ruined village which appears to have been of
considerable extent and importance in an earlier period.
Name Book 1855
MDG6347
CARZIELD
FORT
Roman
NX98SE 8 968 818.
(NX 9687 8180) ROMAN FORT (R) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1948)
Excavations at Carzield in March 1939 revealed an Antonine
cavalry fort measuring some 500' (154m) by 560' (172m) over
the ramparts.
The defences are still visible at the SE angle (together with
about 300' of each adjacent side), the NE angle, and a sector
of the W side. The fort was surrounded by a turf rampart and
a double ditch, with a third ditch on the S side, and there
appears to have been a small annexe E of the fort.
E Birley and I A Richmond 1942; J K St Joseph 1951
The fort bath-house was located and planned in 1956, and the
apparent location of the civilian annexe was found at NX 9697
8194, in 1952.
A E Truckell 1955, 1956
The only surveyable traces of this fort are the scarp of the
ditch at the E angle and along the NE and SE sides, and the
counterscarp of the ditch on the N angle. The outer edge of
the ditch is also traceable on the NE and SE sides. Elsewhere
traces are vague and obscured by undergrowth, etc. No visible
traces of the civilian annexe were found. Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 25 June 1964
Further excavations in 1967-8 among the rubbish spread
located a large clay-lined rubbish-pit at NX 968 821. It
measured 30' by 5 1/2'. Finds from the Carzield excavations
are in Dumfries Museum.
J Williams 1968; A McCracken 1967
Further references to the continuing excavations at the
Carzield rubbish pits, and the material found.
M Henig 1969; A E Truckell 1973; J Williams 1976-7
An archaeological watching brief was carried out on the NE
MDG6348
ST QUINTIN'S CHURCH /
Kirkmahoe Old Church
BURIAL; CHURCH
Early
Medieval to
19th Century
NX98SE 9 9747 8149.
(NX 9747 8150) St Quintin's Ch. (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1948)
A presentation to the church of Kirkmahoe was made in 1319,
and the church of St Kentigern of Kirkmahoe is documented in
1396.
A C Smith 1947
The 14th century church was dedicated to St Quintin.
Name Book 1855
The church at Kirkmahoe was one of the foundations of St
Mochaoi, a 5th century Irish Saint. The dedication of the
church was altered to St Quintin by the Roman Catholics.
A B Scott 1918
A human skeleton, lying head to the south, was found during
the digging of the foundations of the new church. Beside it
were an axe and a possible sword-blade, almost consumed by
rust. The axe-handle and bones crumbled upon discovery.
NSA 1841 (J Wightman)
MDG6350
DALSWINTON, BANKHEAD
FORT; FORT
Roman
No trace of any foundations of the old church was found. The
site is occupied by the grave-yard of the present church. No
information was obtained regarding the finds described by N S
A.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 23 June 1964
NX98SW 10 9331 8485.
(Centred: NX 9331 8485) CAMP (R) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1948)
Two almost exactly superimposed Flavian forts, each with an
annexe attached to its N rampart, were revealed by air
photography, and subsequently excavated.
The earlier, and smaller of the two, about 600' square, was
succeeded by the other, about 600 by 770', without any
apparent break in the occupation of the site.
The later fort had another annexe on the SE, and a broad ditch
extending from the S angle down a steep slope, below the
fort, and may have enclosed another annexe on the SW side.
Both forts are of a size to have held cavalry units and the later
fort may have quartered the Ala Petriana.
J K St Joseph 1951, 1955; I A Richmond and J K St Joseph 1957;
E Birley 1958
There are no surface indications of these sites, fields all having
been cultivated. The finds from the excavations are on display
in Dumfries Museum.
Visited by OS (RDL) 25 June 1964
MDG6351
MDG6352
BUTTERHOLE BRAE,
DALSWINTON / Butterhole
Brae 1
DALSWINTON, BANKFOOT
/ Bankfoot 1
ENCLOSURE
Iron Age
Photographed by the R C A H M.
NX98SW 11 9364 8447.
An enclosure, 160 ft square with rounded angles, possibly a
Roman fortlet.
J K St Joseph 1951
TEMPORARY CAMP
Roman
There are no surface indications of this site.
Visited by OS 25 June 1964.
NX98SW 12 934 840 centre.
(Name; NX 9361 8410) CAMP (R) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1948)
(Centred: NX 9357 8397) Two Roman temporary camps lie on
the flat river holms beside the Nith. The larger camp measures
1,700' NW-SE by c. 1,550'. Its SE side is overlapped by the N
angle of a smaller camp, of which, c. 350' of the N, and 550' of
the W sides are visible. There appears to be a N gate furnished
with an external clavicula. (Information from J K St Joseph
1949)
J K St Joseph 1951, 1965
The large camp has had a gate in the SE side, with external
clavicula, while the smaller camp has a Stracathro-type gate in
its N side. The S camp is most probably Flavian, but the other
maybe Antonine or Severan. J K St Joseph 1958
There are no surface indications of these camps.
Visited by OS (RDL) 25 June 1964
MDG6353
COMYN'S CASTLE
CASTLE
Medieval to
19th Century
Reconnaissance in 1960 revealed part of the SW side of the
larger camp, establishing its dimensions as 1,550' NE- SW by
1,775'. Only one gate, the SE, is known and it has a clavicula.
Its SE side just overlaps part of a much smaller camp with a
Stracathro-type gate.
J K St Joseph 1961, 1973
NX98SW 13 9430 8408.
(NX 94298407) Comyn's Castle (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1948)
The castle upon the same site as the present mansion of
Dalswinton was probably there in 1250. It belonged to the
Comyns and was a "notable strength".
It was superseded as a dwelling place by the old (early 17th
century) House of Dalswinton. (NX 98 SW14)
A C Smith 1924
Part of the walls were still standing, 12 to 14 feet thick in
1792.
NSA 1841 (J Wightman)
The site of the old castle was cleared by Patrick Miller who
purchased the estate in 1785.
A C Smith 1934
MDG6354
DALSWINTON OLD HOUSE
FORTIFIED HOUSE
Medieval to
19th Century
NX 94308408 No remains. The site is occupied by a tennis
court.
Visited by OS (RDL) 25 June 1964
NX98SW 14 9446 8405
For Dalswinton House see NX98SW 79
(NX 9446 8405) Dalswinton Old House (NR) (Remains of)
OS 6" map (1948)
The old House of Dalswinton was built early in the 17th
century. Only the stair turret remains.
A C Smith 1924
The remains of Dalswinton Old House, possibly 17th century,
consist of an underground basement, some 24 feet 8 inches by
16 feet 4 inches within walls 3 to 5 feet thick, with a circular
tower, still 20 feet high, attached to the north-western angle.
RCAHMS 1920
MDG6355
ISLE TOWER
COUNTRY HOUSE; TOWER
Medieval to
Generally as described by RCAHMS.
Visited by OS (RDL) 25 June 1964
NX98SW 15 9359 8322.
HOUSE
Modern
(NX 93588321) Tower (NR)
OS 6" map (1948)
Isle Tower a 16th century building, measures 22 feet 3 inches
long by 19 feet 3 inches wide overall.
A modern mansion is attached to the south wall of the tower
and to the west there extends a range of out-buildings bearing
the date, '1700' on the south wall.
The tower is inhabited and in excellent repair.
RCAHMS 1920, visited 1912
The original building is believed to have been erected in 1414.
The land was granted to the Ferguson's by King Robert the
Bruce.
A C Smith 1924
MDG6359
MDG6373
BANKHEAD
DALSWINTON
CINERARY URN
FINDSPOT
Early Bronze
Age to Late
Bronze Age
Early Bronze
Age to Late
Bronze Age
NX 93598322 Generally as described above.
Visited by OS (RDL) 25 June 1964
NX98SW 19 934 847.
A sepulchral urn containing bone fragments and ashes was
found on Bankhead farm (NX 934 847) Dalswinton, Kirkmahoe,
in September 1789. It stood inverted on a flagstone within a
drystone wall forming a square pit and over it, also face down
and resting on the same flagstone, was a larger urn, which was
broken by workmen at the time of discovery.
R Riddell 1794
NX98SW 32 94 84.
A fragment, 2 7/8 inches long by 1 3/16 inches broad, of a LBA
spearhead, possibly J M Coles type V but with the point and
socket missing, found at Dalswinton, was presented to the
Nat. Mus. Ants Scot. (Accession No. DG 86) in 1924 by James
Mackenzie.
J M Coles 1962; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1925; NMAS Card Index
The donor could not be traced. No further information.
Visited by OS (RDL) 25 June 1964
MDG6375
DALSWINTON ROADS
HENGE?; ENCLOSURE
Early Neolithic
to Late Bronze
Age
MDG6376
DALSWINTON, BANKFOOT
/ Bankfoot 2
PIT; FORT
Roman
This is a duplicate record - see MDG6250
Information from DGC [AJN] 5 April 2010
NX98SW 34 942 843
Cropmarks have revealed the ditches of a small enclosure,
possibly a henge, measuring about 15m in diameter. It lies
immediately to the SW of a narrow double pit alignment
(NX98SW 47) and part of this, together with the enclosure,
have now been overlain by the extension of the steading at
Dalswinton Mains. A small ring-ditch (NX98SW 46) flanks the
NE side of the pit alignments. The enclosure is plotted as a
possible Class II henge on a distribution map of henge
monuments and penannular ring-ditches covering southern
Scotland (RCAHMS 1997, 116, fig. 111).
Information from RCAHMS (ARG), 30 September 1997
NX98SW 35 933 841.
NX933841. A large Roman fort with two periods of occupation
was discovered at Dalswinton in 1972, close to the site of the
known Flavian fort (NX 98 SW 10).
A length of some 725ft of the SE side, the rounded east angle
and 400 ft of the NE side has been recorded. There were two
broad ditches and the alignment of the SE side differed by
some 225ft in the two phases. The outer set of ditches is
interrupted about the mid-point of the visible length at a gate
with a titulum. A length of only 250ft of the corresponding
inner pair of ditches is visible so that the position of the SE
gate in that phase remains undetermined.
This fort lies on the level floodplain of the Nith, and the
ditches on the SE side disappear at the edge of a hollow
marking an old river channel, so that river erosion may have
destroyed the SW defences of the fort. That the present
course of the river lies a little to the west of its position in the
Roman age is shown by the fact that the camp at Ellisland (NX
98 SW 6) on the opposite bank has lost its east angle to river
erosion.
As to date it may be observed that the fort lies within a large
temporary camp (NX 98 SW 12) of which the only known gate
has an external clavicula. Moreover, the SE side of this camp
just overlaps part of a much smaller camp (NX 98 SW ?) of
Stracathro type.
At the already known fort (NX 98 SW 10) situated in a much
more commanding position on high ground 500 ft to the
north, excavations here have shown that both periods of
occupation are Flavian in date. The position of the new fort on
the floodplain strongly suggests that it is earlier than the
other, but presumably also Flavian, though a sequence of four
successive Flavian phases in permanent works was hitherto
unknown in Scotland.
J K St Joseph 1973
(NX 933839) Possible fort rampart visible on air photographs
(RAF/541/A 397/3248-9)
Photographed by the R C A H M.
N angle recognised 1984, allowing re-calculation of area at
about 8.7 ha, and possible re-interpretation as 'vexillation
fortress' of Agricolan date.
G S Maxwell and D R Wilson 1987
MDG6377
MDG6387
MDG6388
MDG6389
MDG6390
DALSWINTON
DALSWINTON ROADS
DALSWINTON ROADS
BUTTERHOLE BRAE,
DALSWINTON / Butterhole
Brae 2
BUTTERHOLE BRAE,
DALSWINTON
ENCLOSURE
RING DITCH
PIT ALIGNMENT
ENCLOSURE
Early Neolithic
to Roman
Early Bronze
Age to Late
Bronze Age
Early Neolithic
to Late Bronze
Age
Iron Age
NX98SW 36 934 848.
Small roughly circular ditched enclosure just north of
Bankhead farm.
A E Truckell 1984
NX98SW 46 9422 8435.
A ring ditch from a Bronze Age burial, visible as a cropmark on
aerial photographs.
NX98SW 47 942 843
Site first recorded by aerial photography in 1960. Two parallel
lines of pits, slightly curving from SSE to NNW, and passing
between at least one small ring-ditch to the NE, and a larger
circular crop-mark, considered as a possible henge, to the SW.
At least fifteen pits are visible in the eastern line, and eleven in
the western. The southern portion of the feature has been
removed in more recent times by the construction of an
agricultural outbuilding on the site.
Information from DGC [AJN] 10 November 2004
NX98SW 48 9369 8455.
This enclosure is similar to that described on NX 98 SW 11, but
is less than 40 ft square.
J K St Joseph 1951
SIGNAL STATION?
Roman
There are no surface indications of this site.
Visited by OS 25 June 1964.
NX98SW 49 9380 8434.
A circular ditch, broken by a narrow gap, as in a small signal
station.
J K St Joseph 1951
MDG6397
DALSWINTON, BANKFOOT
/ Dalswinton, Bankfoot 2
TEMPORARY CAMP
Roman
MDG6400
MDG6409
SANDBED
DALSWINTON, BANKFOOT
/ Dalswinton, Bankfoot 3
LINEAR FEATURE
TEMPORARY CAMP
Iron Age
Roman
MDG6413
BANKHEAD
RING DITCH?
Early Neolithic
to Late Bronze
Age
At this site is a slight immeasurable elevation that appears to
have a level area approximating to the crop mark. There are,
however, no surveyable remains.
Visited by OS 25 June 1964.
NX98SW 55 9365 8381.
Aerial reconnaissance (RCAHMSAP 1983, 1984, 1989 & 1992)
has identified a Roman temporary camp which is situated
approximately 600m SW of Dalswinton House on the N bank
of the River Nith. Three sides are discernable in aerial
photography. The complete N ditch measures approximately
130m in length. The W and E ditches, measuring
approximately 200m and 160m respectively, are not fully
visible in aerial photographs. Stracathro type gates have been
identified on the N and W sides. The camp partially overlies a
much larger camp (NX98SW 12), and is overlain by the NW
angle of another (NX98SW 65) temporary camp. The camp
was first identified by J K St Joseph in 1949. Furthermore, St
Joseph suggests that the camp is '...most probably Flavian....'
in date (Information from St Joseph 1949; St Joseph 1958)
Information from RCAHMS (GJW) 26 February 1998.
NX98SW 58 Centre946 836.
NX98SW 65 937 837.
Aerial photography (1984, 1989 & 1992) has recorded the
cropmark of a Roman temporary camp, lying approximately
600m SW of Dalswinton House. A length of ditch
approximately 130m in length as well as the NW angle are
both discernable at NX c. 937 837. The cropmark overlies
another Roman temporary camp (NX98SW 55).
Information from RCAHMS (GJW) 25 February 1998.
NX98SW 70 9351 8456.
The cropmark of a possible ring-ditch with a diameter of about
MDG9815
DALSWINTON MAINS
FARMSTEAD
MDG8196
CARZIELD
FARMHOUSE; TOWER
Medieval to
Modern
Unknown
16m has been revealed by aerial photography 105m SSW of
Bankhead farmsteading.
Information from RCAHMS (KB) 20 April 1999
NX98SW 79.06 9419 8430
NX98SE 8.01 9694 8184.
A Medieval tower and later farmhouse, themselves now
levelled, were erected over the completely stripped site of the
Roman main buildings.
E Birley and I A Richmond 1942.
MDG8557
MDG8805
CASTLE ROYAL
DALSWINTON CAERLAVEROCK
SETTLEMENT
ROAD
Unknown
Roman
No trace.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 25 June 1964.
NX 9389 8540
Settlement
The AP plots on the map (supplied by Historic Scotland),
match the description of DGSMR 7852 / NMRS NX98NW 15.
Strong suspicion they are one and the same.
Dumfries and Galloway SMR: Information entered 23/03/2000
NX97NE 150 Unlocated.
The existence of a number of Roman sites between
Dalswinton and the Solway Firth leads St Joseph and others to
propose that they were connected by a road (which would
have crossed this sheet).
E Birley and I A Richmond 1939; J K St Joseph 1952; S N Miller
1952.
This proposed road can neither be traced on the ground nor
on air photographs. There is no obvious route on this sheet.
Visited by OS (JF) 17 March 1975.
MDG9200
KIRKTON / Kirkmahoe
Parish Church/Kirkton,
Dumfries
FINDSPOT; FINDSPOT;
FINDSPOT; PIT; FINDSPOT
Medieval to
19th Century
NX98SE 85 974 815
A large copper-alloy cauldron, a copper-alloy skillet and a
turned wooden vessel were found in metal-detecting on 2
August 1992. They all apparently formed a single deposit, and
within the wooden vessel there were two packages of
unidentified organic material.
Information from Dr JA Sheridan (RMS), 28 August 1992.
A bronze cauldron containing a bronze skillet, a turned lidded
wooden vessel filled with an organic material (possibly butter)
and two packets of organic material (possibly butter or
cheese) were found by a metal detectorist on the terrace to
the W of Kirkmahoe parish church and the site of St Quintin's
chapel. The cauldron and skillet may be dated to the later 14th
century.
The find spot of the hoard was excavated and the feature into
which they had been tipped was sectioned to a depth of 0.8m.
The hoard had been pushed into a soft organic deposit which
was the uppermost fill of a narrow (0.45m diameter) wood
and wattle lined pit. The other fills of this pit, which were a
mixture of organic material and the natural boulder clay, gave
every indication that the feature was substantially deeper
than the portion excavated.
The pit had clearly not been dug for the burial of the hoard,
and the specialised construction of the pit (or well?) suggests
that the boulder clay terrace from which it was dug is likely to
contain other archaeological features. Moreover, the
circumstances of the original find suggests that past plough
damage has been slight and that any such features are likely
to have good organic preservation. The surrounding area has
now been surveyed by metal detectorists and the resulting
minor finds plotted and removed.
MDG9409
DALSWINTON
CAUSEWAYED RING DITCH
Early Bronze
Age to Late
Bronze Age
MDG9545
SHAW'S MOOR
BANK (EARTHWORK);
CAIRN; ENCLOSURE?
Unknown
MDG9546
DALSWINTON COMMON / MOUND; CLEARANCE
Shaw's Moor/Duncow Burn CAIRN?
Unknown
The hoard has been declared Treasure Trove and will be
published in full in due course.
R M Spearman 1992
NX98SW 86 949 842
Causewayed ring-ditch.
The site showed up as a cropmark on an aerial photograph. It
is a circular ring-ditch, approximately 30m in diameter, with an
entrance causeway across the ditch on the south.
NX98NE 24 958 874
This site consists of three seperate lengths of low, linear
spreads of boulders up to 0.3m high and 3.5m wide, forming a
possible enclosure. The W side is formed by a sinuous bank
24m long. The N end is an L-shaped bank which runs 18m W-E
and then 20m N-S. The latter stretch is followed by a gap of
13m and a length of bank 12m long. The S end of the
enclosure is open. It seems unlikely that these remains
represent an enclosure at all, but are, rather, simply a series of
defined banks, the important area being that in the centre
from which stones were cleared.
There are five cairns situated around the N, E and W sides of
the banks of the cleared area. these vary in size from 3-6m in
diameter and 0.2-0.6m high. There is also a linear spread of
boulders 30m long and 10m wide to the NW. This is similar to
the banks noted above but is far more dispersed.
Visited by CFA, December 1992.
CFA 1993; NMRS MS/625/33.
NX98NE 26 954 887
There are two grass-covered mounds located on relatively flat
ground to the NE of the Duncow Burn and close to the field
dyke. Each measures between 3 and 4m in diameter, and
about 0.3m in height.
Visited by CFA, December 1992.
MDG9665
GLENMAID MOOR
STRUCTURE; CLEARANCE
CAIRN
Early Bronze
Age to 19th
Century
MDG9666
GLENMAID MOOR
BUILDING
Medieval to
Modern
MDG9667
AUCHENGEITH
FARMSTEAD
Medieval to
Modern
CFA 1993; NMRS MS/625/33.
NX98NE 28 967 893
Four groups of field clearance cairns (NMRS, MS 738/22,
nos.3-7, 11, 18) are dispersed over the NE facing hillside of
Glenmaid Moor to the NW of NX98NE 4. Towards the N of the
area, amongst the two largest groups of clearance cairns, are
three small structures (NMRS, MS 738/22, nos.9-10, 15 and
16) and an enclosure.
M Dalland and J O'Sullivan, AOC (Scotland) ltd, 1995; NMRS
MS 738/22
NX98NE 29 9741 8950
A building measuring 18m in length by 6.6m in width and
standing up to 0.8m in height and with an enclosure attached
to the S part was recorded during the course of a preafforestation survey by AOC (Scotland) Ltd (NMRS, MS 738/22,
no.22). The building was depicted on both the 1st edition of
the OS 6-inch map (Dumfriesshire 1861, sheet xxxii) and the
current edition of the OS 1:10,000 map (1983) as roofed.
M Dalland and J O'Sullivan, AOC (Scotland) ltd, 1995; NMRS
MS 738/22
NX99SE 9 9595 9025
The farmstead which is depicted as a roofed on both the 1st
edition of the OS 6-inch map (Dumfries 1861, sheet xxxii) and
the current edition of the OS 1:10,000 map (1979) was
recorded as a roofless building with a lean-to structure at its
SW end and an associated enclosure by AOC (Scotland) Ltd
(NMRS, MS 738/22, no.24) during the course of a preafforestation survey.
M Dalland and J O'Sullivan, AOC (Scotland) Ltd, 1995; NMRS
MS 738/22
The rectangular stone building at Auchengaith is about 30m
long and 5.3m wide. It is aligned north-east to south-west. The
MDG9668
AUCHENGEITH
MOUND
Unknown
building has mortared stone walls which are 0.55m wide and
which survive up to roof level in the middle part. Four
partition walls divide the building into five rooms. The two
south-west rooms are only 4.6m wide as the south wall of
these rooms is stepped in 0.7m. There are the remains of four
entrances into the building along the south wall. Wooden
remains and sheets of corrugated iron on the south side at the
west end of the building indicate that there has been a
wooden 'lean-to' structure at this end.
The building is shown as a roofed structure on the 1st ed OS
map. According to this the building is almost 50m long. The
missing 20m at the east end are just visible as a rectangular
area of level ground. The OS map also shows the 'lean-to'
structure at the west end, and a rectangular garden plot to the
east of the building. The east corner of this plot is still visible
as two low grassy banks at a 90 degree angle. There is a 1.6m
tall drystone wall to the north of the building forming a
courtyard along the north side of the building which is also
mapped on the 1st edition. To the east of the building is a
third enclosure mapped aligned and abutting the stone dyke
to the south of the building. The outline of this enclosure is
still visible as a low turf-clad stony bank, 2m wide and 0.4m
high, enclosing an area of about 30 x 25m.
The building is not stable with large blocks of collapsed
masonry especially at the west end. The east end of the
building has been completely removed. The area to the south
and west of the building is partly covered by dense nettles.
M Dalland & J O'Sullivan, 1995
NX99SE 9 9588 9067
A mound composed of small angular stones in a brown soil
matrix and measuring 7m in diameter and standing up to 0.6m
in height with a shallow hollow upslope was recorded at the
base of a slope and above the Goukstone burn during the
MDG9669
MDG9670
AUCHENGEITH
GLENMAID MOOR
CAIRN
CLEARANCE CAIRN;
BUILDING
Early Neolithic
to Late Bronze
Age
Medieval to
19th Century
course of a pre-afforestation survey by AOC (Scotland) Ltd
(NMRS MS 738/22, no.25).
M Dalland and J O'Sullivan, AOC (Scotland) Ltd, 1995; NMRS
MS 738/22
NX99SE 11 centred on 956 903
Two cairns, each comprising a shallow irregular hollow
measuring between 9 and 10m in diameter, were recorded
during the course of a pre-afforestation survey by AOC
(Scotland) Ltd (NMRS MS 738/22, no.23) near the summit of
Auchlengeith Hill at NX 9560 9037 and NX 9570 9042.
M Dalland and J O'Sullivan, AOC (Scotland) Ltd, 1995; NMRS
MS 738/22
Two robbed cairns lie 350m north-west of Auchengaith, just
below the summit of Auchengaith Hill with an open view down
the glen towards the south-west. The cairn to the north-east
consists of a shallow irregular hollow, approx 9m in diameter,
containing several large embedded angular stones. The other
cairn is also manifested as a shallow irregular hollow, 9-10m in
diameter. These two structures are likely to represent the
sites of totally robbed out cairns used to build the stone dyke
30-40m to the south.
Both cairns are completely robbed out, the one to the northeast is covered by dense nettles, while the other is grass
covered with some stone poking out.
M Dalland & J O'Sullivan, 1995
NX98NE 30 9687 8978
A rectangular stone-built building with rounded corners
(NMRS, MS 738/22, no.21) was recorded during the course of
a pre-afforestation survey by AOC (Scotland) Ltd on the NE
facing slopes of Glenmaid Moor. The building measures 8m by
2.8m overall and, although the location and size differ, it is
probably that recorded by Page (1992) (NX98NE 27). Two
clearance cairns lie to the E of the building (NMRS, MS 738/22,
nos.19 and 20).
M Dalland and J O'Sullivan, AOC (Scotland) Ltd, 1995; NMRS
MS 738/22
MDG9693
KNOWEHEAD QUARRY /
LOCHARBRIGGS, QUARRY
QUARRY
Modern
A small oval cairn is located on a rocky outcrop. The cairn
measures 3.5 x 2.5m and is 0.25m high. It is partly turf covered
with some angular medium sized stones protruding. It is
clearly defined and partly covered with grass and some
bracken.
Another irregular oval cairn is situated on another rocky
outcrop 50m to the west. It measures 9 x 4.5m and is 0.3m
high. It is not well defined and is partly turf covered with some
angular medium sized stones exposed.
M Dalland & J O'Sullivan, 1995
NX98SE 71 987 813
Quarry
(Location cited as NX 987 813). Sandstone quarry,
Locharbriggs. Mid 19th century and later. A large redsandstone quarry, now partly flooded, worked on a small
scale, with several derrick-cranes, both wood and steel. There
are corrugated-iron saw-sheds, and an interesting plant for
making bricks from waste, with a narrow-gauge railway, at NX
986 814.
J R Hume 1976.