Geograph - photograph every grid square

Click on the end-note title for closer views of the farm site itself.

The present picture is a view towards the former site of the farm buildings (now gone). These occupied the flat area that is shown in the background; it is higher than the surrounding ground, and it gives the impression of having been built up to form a platform. While I will, for convenience, refer to it as a platform, I am cautious about drawing the conclusion that it was built up. It may well have been, but I cannot say.

It is only natural that, in this area, prone to flooding, the farm buildings would occupy a site a little higher than their surroundings, but it should be noted that the adjacent ground was extensively quarried for sand in the mid-twentieth century. It is therefore difficult to say what the topography of this area was at an earlier period. For example, the appearance of a platform may have been the result, in whole or in part, of the removal of the ground around it.

I came across lumps of clinker near the edge of the platform: for one example, see NS3976 : Clinker at Mains of Cardross. This is unlikely to be of any great antiquity, and I would guess that it was used to fill in the excavated areas in the twentieth century.

For views along the top of the near edge of that flat area, see NS3976 : Mains of Cardross: northern edge of the platform and NS3976 : Mains of Cardross: northern edge of the platform.