Maybole to Girvan High Pressure Natural Gas Pipeline, South Ayrshire. Archaeological Watching Brief

A programme of archaeological works was conducted during the construction of the Maybole to Girvan High Pressure Natural Gas Pipeline. This work involved a watching brief, a controlled topsoil strip and a topographic survey and evaluation. The features recorded included a range of field boundary and drainage ditches, possible trackways, a stone box drain and a small number of isolated pits. The majority of these features are likely to relate to post-medieval to recent agricultural use of the landscape. None of the pits contained any dating evidence in the way of artefacts and as such are of uncertain date but some of these are likely to also be post-medieval to recent in date or stone holes rather than being archaeological in origin. There were no certainly prehistoric features identified. A topographic survey and evaluation was carried out of a potential burnt mound. The mound proved to be a non-archaeological outcrop of boulder clay and was removed under archaeological supervision.