Site Report

WoSASPIN 14193

NS 4789 7892. 'Remains of a house': details in Strathclyde Regional Council SMR.
SRC SMR 1993.

On the N side of Burncrooks Burn are the remains of a stone-built house (shown on the current 1:10,000 OS map). The walls are reduced to less than 1 metre high and there is rubble collapse inside and outside the structure. The house consists of a single compartment with an addition to the E side. There is a small outshot attached to the house on the W side, reduced to grass-covered foundations.
Report and sketch plan in SMR archive.
Visited SRC (Swanson & Proud) 6/6/89
Entered WoSAS (CF) 09/12/99

NGR 247897, 678918
Located approx. 125m to the west of Burnscrook Reservoir. Domestic, rectangular building with two main rooms and two small agricultural add-ons. Core structure remains semi-upstanding with eastern and western add-ons described in 1989.
Sludden, K. and Mulligan, S., 'Gavinburn, West Dunbartonshire: Archaeological Survey', Rathmell Archaeology Ltd (2012)