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Lesmahagow, Black Hill
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1577
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1577 (1577)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lesmahagow
- National Grid reference
- NS 8323 4343
- Latitude
- 55.67033
- Longitude
- -3.85815
- Altitude
- 290 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.35 ha
- Footprint
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- Other (1955); Earthwork Survey (1959); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1966); Other (1969)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2882
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10294
- National record
- record NS 84 SW 2; monument 46670
- Wikidata
- Q31104294
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