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Mountherrick
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1567
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1567 (1567)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Crawfordjohn
- National Grid reference
- NS 8537 2236
- Latitude
- 55.48161
- Longitude
- -3.81540
- Altitude
- 272 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 3, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Footprint
- 0.7 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1995)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 20981
- National record
- record NS 82 SE 21; monument 120365
- Wikidata
- Q31103974
Sources