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Cadzow
South Lanarkshire, Scotland · Atlas SC1158
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1158 (1158)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Hamilton
- National Grid reference
- NS 7343 5347
- Latitude
- 55.75802
- Longitude
- -4.01852
- Altitude
- 65 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.09 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- parkland
Dating
- Dating
- AD 50–400 and undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits and postholes
- Finds
- metal
- Investigations
- Other (1939); Earthwork Survey (1955); Earthwork Survey (1975); Excavation (1983); Excavation (1986); Excavation (1987); Excavation (1989); Other (2003); Other (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 10727
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 9842
- National record
- record NS 75 SW 10; monument 45727
- Wikidata
- Q31104231
Sources
References
- Archer, E (1986) 'Cadzow, earthwork'. Disc Exc Scot 1986, 36
- Archer, E (1987) 'Cadzow, earthwork'. Disc Exc Scot 1987, 51
- Archer and Henderson, E and B (1989) 'Cadzow earthwork (Hamilton parish), coin, foundations, post hole'. Disc Exc Scot 1989, 59
- RCAHMS (1978) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Lanarkshire: an inventory of the prehistoric and Roman monuments. HMSO: Edinburgh
- Wallace and Talbot, M and E (1983) 'Cadzow, earthwork'. Disc Exc Scot 1983, 31