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Arran, Lamlash, Park Terrace

Corn Drying Kiln (Pre-improvement)(Possible), Grain Mill (Post Medieval), Rig And Furrow (Pre-improvement)

Site Name Arran, Lamlash, Park Terrace

Classification Corn Drying Kiln (Pre-improvement)(Possible), Grain Mill (Post Medieval), Rig And Furrow (Pre-improvement)

Canmore ID 283766

Site Number NS03SW 140

NGR NS 024 309

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council North Ayrshire
  • Parish Kilbride
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Cunninghame
  • Former County Buteshire

Activities

Project (June 2005 - August 2005)

NS03SW 140 024 309

Standing building recording; watching brief NS 024 309. A programme of archaeological works was carried out between June and August 2005 on overgrown parkland ground to the N of the former site of the Whitehouse. An evaluation of the available ground comprised six trenches covering c 6%, while building recording established a baseline record for a ruinous corn mill.

Three putative furrows, which may derive from pre-designed landscape agriculture, and a number of more recent disturbances were noted. No significant archaeological features were identified during the evaluation.

Standing building recording and a subsequent watching brief were conducted on an early 18th-century corn mill prior to and during its demolition. The mill is depicted as a ruin on the 1st edition OS map (1864). The apsidal SE end of this structure is suggested to be a pre-existing corn-drying kiln which was then incorporated or re-used within the corn mill. The later mill structure is provisionally dated by an inscribed door lintel to 1717. Modifications to the structure, such as the blocking of openings, construction of a porch and the application of a limewash to the exterior of the apse, cannot be confidently dated but may relate to the integration of the mill into the designed landscape of the Whitehouse in the late 19th century.

Report to be lodged with WoSAS SMR.

Sponsor: John Thomson Construction Ltd.

T Rees and R Shaw, Rathmell Archaeology Ltd, 2005.

Note (30 October 2018)

The location, classification and period of this site have been reviewed.

HES Survey and Recording 30 October 2018

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