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Double Dykes, Sodom Hill
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0841
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0841 (841)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Stonehouse
- National Grid reference
- NS 7647 4793
- Latitude
- 55.70906
- Longitude
- -3.96761
- Altitude
- 135 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 3, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 2.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1845); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1858); Other (1959); Earthwork Survey (1972)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 9700
- National record
- record NS 74 NE 2; monument 45585
- Wikidata
- Q31103894
Sources
References
- NSA (1834-1845) The new statistical account of Scotland by the ministers of the respective parishes under the superintendence of a committee of the society for the benefit of the sons and daughters of the clergy, 15v Edinburgh
- RCAHMS (1978) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Lanarkshire: an inventory of the prehistoric and Roman monuments. HMSO: Edinburgh