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Blairlinn
North Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1490
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1490 (1490)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- New Monkland
- National Grid reference
- NS 7582 7299
- Latitude
- 55.93393
- Longitude
- -3.98940
- Altitude
- 100 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.22 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1955); Other (1974); Other (1982)
Identifiers
- National record
- record NS 77 SE 3; monument 45924
- Wikidata
- Q31096260
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