Site Name: Chatelherault
Alternative Name(s):
Monument Type: Bowling Green; Gardens; Trackway
Council: South Lanarkshire
Parish: Hamilton
Map Sheet: NS75SW
Grid Reference: 273750, 653950
Canmore Number: 110506
Non-Statutory Register Code:
WoSASPIN 20196
NS75SW 27.01 737 539
NS 737 539 In advance of an elaborate development programme, a trial excavation and resistivity survey were carried out on the Bowling Green in March 1995. The work concentrated on this raised earthwork, which lies between the kennels compound and the parterre gareden, on the S side of the William Adam pavilions.
Evidence was found of an elaborate 19th century ornamental garden, overlying a considerable dump of crushed stone and redeposited earth. This in turn sealed a substantial dark-earth deposit, which clearly predated the construction of the Bowling Green/garden sequence.
Sponsor: Hamilton District Council.
G Ewart and J Triscott 1995.
Following on from the geophysical survey and trial trenches of 1995, a full area excavation was conducted by Kirkdale Archaeology on the area of the bowling green during November and December 1995. Evidence for formal planting was recorded, as were the burials of several dogs. The excavations revealed the plan of a large-scale formal garden, intended to be viewed from the adjacent viewing mount. Beneath this, evidence for a trackway pre-dating the bowling green, but of unknown date, was revealed.
Sponsor: South Lanarkshire Council.
G Ewart and J Triscott 1996.
Ewart, G. & Triscott, J. , 'Chatelherault (Hamilton parish), 18th-century hunting lodge gardens', Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, 1996, pp.99.(1996)
Ewart and Triscott, G and J , 'Chatelherault (Hamilton parish), 18th century hunting lodge and garden', Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, 1995, pp.79.(1995)
Sharman, P , 'Bowling Green, Chatelherault, South Lanarkshire (Hamilton parish), watching brief',Discovery and Excavation, Scotland,2000, pp.86-7, 2001(2000)