Industrial / Post Medieval 05 Wilsontown
Renewables Pmi<Nr-t
Introduction
03 ... Project Overview
Industrial / Post Medieval 05...Wilsontown
Industrial Ruins
07 ...Cleugh House
Searching for the original house
08... Haywood
Industrial Workings
09 ... Braehead
Old Quarries
/ 0 ... High Mill
Mill Investigation
11Westshield House
17th Century House
1 2Shodshill Mill
Remains of Mill
13 ... Terra Cotta Brickworks Cleghorn
/ 5 ... Site of Bishop's Castle
Carstairs
16 ...Burnhead Farm Late medieval remains
17...Scabgill
Bastle House
18 ...Eastshield Tower
Ruins at Eastshield Farm
20 ... Lockhart Mill
Late medieval mill
22 ... Lockhart Castle
Tower House
"3Motte at Gartland
Investigating an artificial mound
24Blackcastle
Medieval Site
Prehistoric
26Mountainblaw
Prehistoric Site
27 ... Hendry's Course
Prehistoric Site
28 ... Fort / Encampment
Huntleyhill
29 ...Hyndford Crannog
Excavation of an unusual crannog
30 ... Castle Qua
Fort overlooking Mouse Valley
31 ... Lanark Moor
Bronze Age Cist
32 ... Stanmore
Prehistoric Site
Roman
34 ... Castledykes
Field Walking / Surveying
35 ... Roman Road
To Cleghorn
36 ... Roman Road
To Kilncadzow
37 ... Roman Fort
Carnwath
38 ... Roman Road
To Carluke
39 ... Roman Camp
In the grounds of Monteith House
40 ... Hill of Kilncadzow
Roman Site
Conclusions
41 ... Outcomes
Including problems encountered and recommendations
46 ... Acknowledgements
and Bibliography
47 ... Participants
Project Overview
The purpose of the project was to look at 30 archaeological sites belonging to the Prehistoric / Roman / Medieval and Industrial Revolution periods within a 10 kilometer area of the outer edge of the Blacklaw Hill Windfarm. The intended outcome of the project was to be the recommendation of several sites for further investigation either by using a resistivity meter or by excavation dependent on the final report of the consultant archaeologist. These were to be drawn from a short list of ten sites selected by the course participants. This was to be delivered as part of the report at the end of the survey.
The sites chosen for investigation spanned the period from Prehistoric to the Industrial Revolution; the number of sites for each period was to be roughly similar with the following time periods being selected - Prehistoric, Roman, Medieval and Industrial. These were selected by the consultant archaeologist.
The volunteers were to be drawn from the area covered by the survey. It was anticipated that
volunteers once they had expressed an interest in the project were to receive training in how to approach the survey eg how to use GPS equipment or how to use ranging poles to good effect, how to take photos of the site, how to find out information about the sites , how to set out this information and finally how to assess the sites for further work. In addition a CAD course was to be set up to give the volunteers training in how to make plans of the buildings that they looked at