INTRODUCTION Local authorities are responsible for maintaining a register of all the known archaeological sites in their area. A small proportion of these are protected as Scheduled Monuments which are listed in a separate schedule, but many others merit protection for their regional or local importance. The records for all of these archaeology sites in Inverclyde were transferred from the West of Scotland Archaeology Service in 2013. Currently there are 634 recorded archaeology sites. This schedule contains details of all the sites within the Port Glasgow area. There are also schedules for Greenock, Gourock, Kilmacolm/Quarrier’s Village, Inverkip and Wemyss Bay. Each record sheet contains site details including the site name(s), grid reference, monument type, the date the site was first recorded, which parish it was located in, a location map, available background details and a Canmore reference number. Canmore is the online catalogue to Scotland’s archaeology, buildings and industrial and marine heritage. It can be accessed to carry out searches, through the Historic Environment Scotland website at: https://www.historicenvironment.scot/learn/learning-resources/canmore/ Anyone with details of potential archaeological sites in Inverclyde that they think could be worthy of investigation should contact Margaret Pickett from our Planning Policy team on 01475 712493, or send us an email to [email protected] ARCHAEOLOGY SITES IN PORT GLASGOW LOCATION CANMORE REFERENCE B Broadfield (Battery) 332046 Broadfield Hospital 75470 C Chapelton 42451 Craigmarloch Wood (Small Cairns) 42448 Craigmarloch Wood (Small Cairns) 70137 Craigmarloch Wood (Vitrified Fort) 42453 Customs House 199733 D Devol Moor (Mound) 75478 Devol Moor (Enclosure, Field Bank) 42442 Devol Moor (Anti-aircraft battery, Military Camp) 119884 Devol Moor (Homestead) 42433 Dubbs 200931 Dunlop and Bremner’s Engine Works, Kingston Shipyard, Ardgowan Street 144168 E East Dougliehill (Farmstead) 170974 East Dougliehill (Reservoir, Dam) 85609 East Dougliehill (Reservoir, Dam) 85610 F East Kilbride 199891 Ferguson Ailsa Shipyard 68380 Finlaystone Estate (Castle, Country House) 42414 Finlaystone Estate (Inscribed Stone) 42413 Finlaystone Estate (Logboat) 116499 Finlaystone Point Unknown G Gasworks 42440 Glasgow Road 91876 Glen Yard, Belhaven Street 68379 Golf Course 85608 Gourock Ropeworks (Ropeworks, Sugar Refinery) 42443 Gourock Ropeworks (Ropeworks) 42445 H Hamilton’s Offices, Glen Shipyard, Belhaven Street 143584 Harelaw (Cairn) 275820 Harelaw (Cairn) 275822 Harelaw (Field Clearance Cairns) 109487 Harelaw (Cairn) 275809 Harelaw (Mounds) 138042 Harelaw Reservoir 42441 K Kelburn Park (Timber Poinds) Unknown Kingston Yard, Bogston 211557 Kingston Shipyard 68399 L Lamont’s Castle 143536 N Newark Castle ( Vault) 42422 Newark Castle (Castle) 42421 Newark Castle (Chapel) 42438 Newark Sail Cloth Co. 147223 Newark Works 203628 P PS Comet 151531 Port Glasgow (Coins) Unknown Port Glasgow (Hoard) Unknown Port Glasgow (Burgh, Town) 75467 Port Glasgow (Farmstead) 170977 Port Glasgow (Farmstead) 170976 Port Glasgow (Stone Axe) 75480 Port Glasgow Station 85611 T Town Buildings, Fore Street 79279 V Viaduct 199738 W West Dougliehill (Rig, Cultivation, Remains) 85612 West Dougliehill (Farmstead) 170973 West Dougliehill (Path) 138045 West Dougliehill (Quarry) 138044 West Dougliehill (Hollow, Field Clearance) 138043 West Quay (Lighthouse) 199789 West Quay (Industrial, Warehouse) 199790 West Quay (Quay) 199787 Woodhall (Country House) 199437 Woodside (Curling Pond) 332043 Archaeology Site – Port Glasgow Site Name: Broadfield, Port Glasgow Alternative Name: Grid Reference: 233936 673773 Parish: Port Glasgow Monument Type: Battery Date Recorded: 16 March 2012 Canmore Ref No. 332046 Archaeology Note A circular structure annotated as a battery was depicted on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map. Hachures on its northern edge suggest there may have been some form of artificial revettment on this, the downslope side of the feature. It was also shown on the 2nd edition map, though it was no longer annotated as a battery, but does not appear on modern OS maps of the area. Archaeology Site – Port Glasgow Site Name: Broadfield Hospital, Port Glasgow Alternative Name: Grid Reference: 234950 673750 Parish: Monument Type: Hospital Date Recorded: 4 May 2001 Canmore Ref No. 75470 Archaeology Notes Large Scots-Renaissance mansion with details based on Newark Castle: rubble, 2/3-storey with 4-storey tower, crow-stepped gables, notable conservatory: panel with letters 'ADV' and 'PKC' interwoven and 'architect 1870'. Further Reading Millar, AH -The castles and mansions of Renfrewshire and Buteshire. Glasgow. (1889) Archaeology Site – Port Glasgow Site Name: Chapelton, Port Glasgow Alternative Name: Chapelton Farm Grid Reference: 231220, 674570 Parish: Port Glasgow Monument Type: Chapel, Burial Ground Date Recorded: 25 July 1955 Canmore Ref No. 42451 Archaeology Notes A chapel stood at the extremity of what is now the E boundary of the East Parish, which must have been the principal cemetery, for many grave stones were found sunk a spade deep when the land was used for a kitchen garden by the late Mr King. The land is part of Chapelton Farm, on Greenock Estate. The chapel is believed to have been destroyed at the time of the Reformation. D Weir 1829 Chapelton farm has long been broken up, although the old farmhouse can still be located at NS 3122 7457; it is a private residence. Mr Pollock, the present tenant, has no knowledge of this chapel. Further local enquiries failed to supply any additional information. (1955) Archaeology Site – Port Glasgow Site Name: Craigmarloch Wood, Port Glasgow, Alternative Name: Grid Reference: 234300 672300 Parish: Monument Type: Small Cairns Date Recorded: Unknown Canmore Ref No. 42448 Archaeology Notes Off the NW end of Craigmarloch Wood are several groups of boulders, six being oval, compactly built overgrown mounds. The most readily seen, in thick bracken, is neatly kerbed and some 3.2m by 4.6m. Further Reading McIntyre, H - 'Craigmarloch Wood (Kilmacolm parish), group of cairns', Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, 1987, pp.52. (1987) Archaeology Site – Port Glasgow Site Name: Craigmarloch Wood, Port Glasgow Alternative Name: Grid Reference: 234300 672300 Parish: Port Glasgow Monument Type: Small Cairns Date Recorded: 30 January 2002 Canmore Ref No. 70137 Archaeology Note Most readily seen, in thick bracken, is neatly kerbed and some 3.2m by 4.6m. Further Reading McIntyre, H - 'Craigmarloch Wood (Kilmacolm parish), group of cairns', Discovery and Excavation in Scotland, 1987, pp.52. (1987) Archaeology Site – Port Glasgow Site Name: Craigmarloch Wood, Port Glasgow, Alternative Name: Grid Reference: 234435 671855 Parish: Port Glasgow Monument Type: Vitrified Fort Date Recorded: 13 May 1964 Canmore Ref No. 42453 Archaeology Notes OS 6" map (1970) This fort stands at 450ft OD, within Craigmarloch Wood. It is flattened oval on plan, measuring 160ft by 85ft within the ruins of a wall, originally timber-laced and about 10ft thick. Small masses of vitrified matter were noted near the entrance, 5ft wide, in the WNW, by Miss Nisbet who carried out excavations in 1963-5. Test trenches in the interior failed to provide any clear evidence of structures; no occupation traces at all were found near the centre of the fort, where there is a modern fox conduit. An annexe, measuring 130ft by 60ft, on the NE is enclosed by a wall, showing features similar to the main fort wall, with a suggestion of post-sockets but no vitrification. A second annexe (H C Nisbet 1965) on the SW was shown to be a massive structure with a terraced build, related to the fairly steep slope. No occupation debris was found in either annexe, nor any conclusion evidence as to their date relative to the fort. The excavations showed that the fort wall, in the NW, overlay a double palisaded enclosure measuring about 210ft by 115ft (A Ritchie 1971). Virtually all the artefacts found were associated with this earlier occupation of the site. They included coarse pottery, shale rings, a tanged flint arrowhead, stone whorls, discs and hammers, a flint scarper and a fragment of a wooden vessel. The finds were placed in Paisley Museum. A radio-carbon date of 590 +/- 40 BC was obtained from material associated with the palisaded enclosure, while charcoal from the vitrified wall, though from a position such that it might possibly belong to a later period than the building of the wall, gave a date of 35-40 BC. H C Nisbet 1963; 1964; 1966; R W Feachem 1977; E W MacKie 1969 When visited in 1964, this was described as a sub-rectangular fort, in a poor state of preservation. It measured about 52.0m E-W by 30.0m transversely, enclosed by a turf-covered rubble rampart, 5.5m broad in the E, with a maximum height of 1.3m, though in places it fades out in the vegetation. A gap in the E side opened on to a level area formed by natural slopes. A fragment of fused wall face, about 1.0m long, was seen S of the entrance, in the WNW. Vague traces of a second rampart were seen along part of the N side at a lower level. Further Reading Ritchie, A - 'Palisaded sites in north Britain: their context and affinities', Scot Archaeol Forum, Vol 2, 1970, pp.47-67 (1970) MacKie, EW - 'Radiocarbon dates and the Scottish Iron Age', Antiquity, Vol 43, 1969, pp.15- 26 (1969) Feachem, RW - Guide to prehistoric Scotland. London (1977) Feachem, RW - 'Castlehill Wood dun, Stirlingshire', PSAS, Vol 90, 1956-7, pp.24-51 (1959) Nisbet, HC - 'Craigmarloch