Lindston Loch, South Ayrshire

Lindston Loch was a small freshwater loch situated within a glacial 'kettle hole. ' The loch lies in the South Ayrshire Council Area, Parish of Dalrymple, Scotland. The lochIn the 1870s the OS map shows that the loch was circa 200 yards long by 100 yards wide, roughly oval in shape, and of an extent of 1. 125ha or 2. 78 acres however a section to the south-west had been infilled, possibly with quarrying waste from the nearby abandoned quarries. The loch was fed by burns running down from near Boghall and Balsarroch. DrainageThe loch's drainage may have begun in the 18th century when Alexander Montgomerie, 10th Earl of Eglinton, was pursuing a number of agricultural improvements on his extensive estates and other landowners followed his example. Some drainage work may have taken place in the 1740s because of the improvements undertaken to provide employment for Irish estate workers during the Irish potato famines of the 1740s and the mid 19th centuries. Many drainage schemes also date to the end of World War I when many soldiers returned en masse to civilian life. UsesAn outflow once ran down towards Dustyhall and joined the Purclewan Burn that powered the mill at Burnton. It is recorded that drainage works were carried out in 1790. Curling matches are recorded at the loch on 15 January 1850 and on 19 December 1844. A curling pond was still recorded in the late 1890s. ArchaeologyIn 1790 Smith records that a bronze tripod ewer was found in Lindston Loch, measuring 95 /8 inches high, by 3¼ inches across the mouth, spreading out to 41 /8 inches. It has a spout and handle and is regarded being of late medieval origin; for many years it was kept at the Dalrymple Manse. A bronze tripod ewer, with spout and handle, almost identical to the Lindston Loch specimen, was found at nearby Skeldon. The old Roman road from the Solway Firth and the Clyde ran near here, passing from Causeway Farm onto Perclewan and Lindston. The above mentioned ewer was found near this road; a glazed pitcher of earthenware was found at Perclewan near the old road in 1833, bearing the figure of a man's face and hands on the front.

Lindston Loch was a small freshwater loch situated within a glacial 'kettle hole. ' The loch lies in the South Ayrshire Council Area, Parish of Dalrymple, Scotland. The lochIn the 1870s the OS map shows that the loch was circa 200 yards long by 100 yards wide, roughly oval in shape, and of an extent of 1. 125ha or 2. 78 acres however a section to the south-west had been infilled, possibly with quarrying waste from the nearby abandoned quarries. The loch was fed by burns running down from near Boghall and Balsarroch. DrainageThe loch's drainage may have begun in the 18th century when Alexander Montgomerie, 10th Earl of Eglinton, was pursuing a number of agricultural improvements on his extensive estates and other landowners followed his example. Some drainage work may have taken place in the 1740s because of the improvements undertaken to provide employment for Irish estate workers during the Irish potato famines of the 1740s and the mid 19th centuries. Many drainage schemes also date to the end of World War I when many soldiers returned en masse to civilian life. UsesAn outflow once ran down towards Dustyhall and joined the Purclewan Burn that powered the mill at Burnton. It is recorded that drainage works were carried out in 1790. Curling matches are recorded at the loch on 15 January 1850 and on 19 December 1844. A curling pond was still recorded in the late 1890s. ArchaeologyIn 1790 Smith records that a bronze tripod ewer was found in Lindston Loch, measuring 95 /8 inches high, by 3¼ inches across the mouth, spreading out to 41 /8 inches. It has a spout and handle and is regarded being of late medieval origin; for many years it was kept at the Dalrymple Manse. A bronze tripod ewer, with spout and handle, almost identical to the Lindston Loch specimen, was found at nearby Skeldon. The old Roman road from the Solway Firth and the Clyde ran near here, passing from Causeway Farm onto Perclewan and Lindston. The above mentioned ewer was found near this road; a glazed pitcher of earthenware was found at Perclewan near the old road in 1833, bearing the figure of a man's face and hands on the front.