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Richie Ferry
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1596
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1596 (1596)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Crawford
- National Grid reference
- NS 9450 2158
- Latitude
- 55.47666
- Longitude
- -3.67071
- Altitude
- 290 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 0.29 ha
- Footprint
- 0.39 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (South west); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Earthwork Survey (1889); Earthwork Survey (1959); Other (1968); Other (1975); Other (1978)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2617
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10510
- National record
- record NS 92 SW 18; monument 47425
- Wikidata
- Q31104300
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1890) 'Forts, camps, and motes of the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 24 (1889-90), 281-352
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 134)
- RCAHMS (1978) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Lanarkshire: an inventory of the prehistoric and Roman monuments. HMSO: Edinburgh