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Kidsneuk

Mound (Period Unassigned), Unidentified Pottery (Medieval)

Site Name Kidsneuk

Classification Mound (Period Unassigned), Unidentified Pottery (Medieval)

Canmore ID 42115

Site Number NS34SW 7

NGR NS 308 408

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council North Ayrshire
  • Parish Irvine
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Cunninghame
  • Former County Ayrshire

Archaeology Notes

NS34SW 7 308 408.

(Approximately NS 308 408) An artificial mound is situated within Bartonholm Plantation (centred NS 308 408 on OS 6" 1911), 200 yds N of the Combination Poorhouse, 300 yds W of Kidsneuk cottages, and W of the railway line. It stands at the N end of the plateau which slopes gently towards Irvine on the S, and more steeply towards the River Garnock which originally ran 150 yds N of the mound, but has since been diverted.

The mound was excavated in 1917. Before excavation, it was 15ft high, with a crest diameter of 25ft and a basal diameter of 103ft by 73ft, and had the appearance, when seen from the road, of a hog-backed mound with its major axis lying almost due N-S. On its N side, there appeared to be the outline of a ditch and rampart, and on the W a feature resembling a berm.

Excavation disproved the supposed existence of the ditch and rampart, but concluded that the mound was largely, if not entirely, artificial, being about 10ft high beneath a covering of blown sand. The only feature discovered was a stone structure, possibly a hearth, on the E rim of the original platform, and it was considered that any building construction on the platform must have been of very light material. Pottery was found in some quantity, and consisted mainly of fragments of round, unglazed vessels with thin walls, obviously cooking pots; there were also sherds of partly glazed pitchers, probably of 13th - 14th century date. Some bones and a few metal objects were also found.

G P H Watson and A O Curle 1918

There is no trace of a mound in the area described which is occupied on the NE of the road by a golf course, and on the SW by sand pits. Some of the pottery is in the Ludovic Mann Collection at the Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow.

Visited by OS (JLD) 11 September 1956

A sherd from this mound is in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland (NMAS Accession no: MEA 322).

L R Laing and W N Robertson 1973

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