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Castle Qua
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1568
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1568 (1568)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lanark
- National Grid reference
- NS 8739 4491
- Latitude
- 55.68460
- Longitude
- -3.79267
- Altitude
- 160 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.04 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- after AD 800
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1755); 1st Identified Written Reference (1795); Other (1859); Other (1937); Other (1962); Other (1967); Earthwork Survey (1973); Other (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2604
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10194
- National record
- record NS 84 SE 1; monument 46570
- Wikidata
- Q31104272
Sources
References
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99
- RCAHMS (1978) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Lanarkshire: an inventory of the prehistoric and Roman monuments. HMSO: Edinburgh