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Kirklie Green

Settlement (Period Unassigned)(Possible)

Site Name Kirklie Green

Classification Settlement (Period Unassigned)(Possible)

Alternative Name(s) Kirklee Green

Canmore ID 42127

Site Number NS35NE 18

NGR NS 3825 5561

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council North Ayrshire
  • Parish Beith (Cunninghame)
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Cunninghame
  • Former County Ayrshire

Archaeology Notes

NS35NE 18 3825 5561.

(NS 3821 5562) (Site of supposed) (NAT) Druidical Circle (NR)

OS 6" map (1856)

There are the remains of a circular trench and some building at Kirklie Green.

NSA 1845 (W Dobie)

At this site there is a barely traceable circular area, divided by the Threepwood road; the S side is slightly raised and on the N side is about a foot of an inward slope similar to a nearly defaced camp. There are no stones such as usually form Druidical Circles, but there is a local tradition that this is the remains of one. The place is called 'Kirklie Green'. There are no remains of any building at present, and no-one locally remembers seeing any. This object is not, and probably never was, a trench.

Name Book 1856

The Kirkly-Green is partly a conical knoll, and has on its SE side a circular, rath-like vallum of earth and stones. It is about 30 yds in diameter, 4 to 5ft wide and 3ft high. None of the stones are large though some may have been removed for field walls. (See also NS35NE 21). R Love 1876; J Smith 1895

NS 3825 5561. This feature is an almost circular mound cut through E-W by a narrow road. On the N side of the road a plantation has virtually destroyed any traces of the mound. On the S side of the road the mound, its top slightly hollowed, consists mainly of a stony scarp some 2.8m wide and 0.8m in maximum height. Along the dyke on the S side of the road the mound measures 23.0m and 12.0m from the dyke southwards. Visited by OS (WDJ) 25 November 1964

These remains form the southern half of a probable homestead, situated on a wide, pasture terrace above the Kirleegreen Reservoir at approximately 167m OD.

The 'mound' effect is the result of a much spread, earth and small stone rampart, now 4 to 5m wide and up to 0.9m high externally, enclosing a once probably sub-circular interior over 18m in diameter. As stated (3) the road and afforestation have destroyed the N half, although the level and slightly raised area it occupied is still evident. No trace of an entrance or outer ditch was found.

The site is broadly similar to the probable homestead at Glenside (NS25SW 16) and also to sites with more pronounced natural defences such as NS25NW 24 and NS25SW 6.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (JRL) 26 January 1983

Activities

Field Visit (11 September 1942)

This site was included within the RCAHMS Emergency Survey (1942-3), an unpublished rescue project. Site descriptions, organised by county, vary from short notes to lengthy and full descriptions and are available to view online with contemporary sketches and photographs. The original typescripts, manuscripts, notebooks and photographs can also be consulted in the RCAHMS Search Room.

Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 10 December 2014.

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