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Crogals Castle
North Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1170
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1170 (1170)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bothwell
- National Grid reference
- NS 7702 6242
- Latitude
- 55.83932
- Longitude
- -3.96540
- Altitude
- 100 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1864); Other (1952); Earthwork Survey (1975)
Identifiers
- National record
- record NS 76 SE 2; monument 45784
- Wikidata
- Q31096251
Sources
References
- RCAHMS (1978) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Lanarkshire: an inventory of the prehistoric and Roman monuments. HMSO: Edinburgh