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Glen Mount, Bush Glen

Mound (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Glen Mount, Bush Glen

Classification Mound (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 41208

Site Number NS25SW 10

NGR NS 2103 5012

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

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

Archaeology Notes

NS25SW 10 2103 5012.

(NS 2103 5012) Glen Mount (NR)

OS 1:10000 map (1980)

Glen Mount is noted in the Ordnance Survey Name Book (ONB) and by Christison and Smith as an evidently artificial circular mound. It is about 25 yds in diameter, with a flat top, partly eroded by water. The ground looks as though the mound has been surrounded by a ditch.

Name Book 1856; D Christison 1893; J Smith 1895

Glen Mount is the remains of a mound, now semi-circular and measuring some 25.0m in diameter and 2.0m high, its N side having been eroded by the Bush Glen. The field in which the remains are situated is under crop and shows no signs of a ditch or foundations. A quantity of stones is visible in the N side of the mound.

Visited by OS (DS) 12 September 1956

Resurveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (JTT) 22 October 1964

The ploughed-down remains of Glen Mount are situated in pasture on the crest of a gentle W-facing scarp at approximately 75m OD. It is generally as described above, and though seemingly of earthen composition, the exposure of some stone on the truncated N side is probably significant. Around the S side (maximum height 1.3m) is an almost imperceptible berm, some 5.0m wide, which may indicate a scrape-up area. More than half of its circumference has been eroded away by the Bush Burn in the W, but its situation on the edge of the glen is typical of raised homestead sites in the area - cf NS25NW 24 and NS25SW 6. However, it has been too levelled to diagnose its original character. Revised at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (JRL) 2 December 1982

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