WoSAS Pin 66091
NS 4285 7849
On both sides of the Spouts Burn, at the south-eastern end of an old boundary and about 430 metres ESE of the ruined farmstead of Auchenreoch are the remains of old lime workings.
A large mound on the northern side of the Spouts Burn is probably lime-rich; it is noticeably much greener than the surrounding vegetation. There is a roughly circular depression in the south-western side of the mound; this may be a poorly-preserved lime-kiln ruin.
Just downstream of the large mound, there are, within a distance of about 40 metres, at least four pairs of small mounds. Each pair consists of a mound on the NW side of the burn facing a corresponding mound on the SE side. The mounds are low, and are about 4 metres across. Like the large mound, they stand out from the surrounding heather by being green and grassy. The low mounds do not resemble the lime-kiln ruins that are common in the area, but they may be connected to that industry, which flourished here in the eighteenth century.
About 150 metres to the south of the large green mound, there are many signs of small-scale cornstone quarrying on the hillside. From that area, which is just to the east of the enclosure of Spouts (WoSAS PIN 21630), a large number of old tracks lead eastwards.
From the large mound, an old boundary leads NW for a distance of 250 metres to the recognisable ruin of a lime-kiln (WoSAS PIN 62628).
Information from Cameron, D.A, 02/02/10