Location
- Atlas number
- SC1627 (1627)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lamington And Wandel
- National Grid reference
- NS 9445 2379
- Latitude
- 55.49650
- Longitude
- -3.67234
- Altitude
- 425 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 5
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 0.88 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.14 ha, 0.42 ha, 0.88 ha
- Footprint
- 1.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, palisade, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Oblique (East); Oblique (South); Simple Gap (South); Simple Gap (West); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- 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
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1773); Other (1816); Other (1859); Earthwork Survey (1889); Earthwork Survey (1959); Other (1963); Other (1967); Other (1975); Other (1978)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 264
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10512
- National record
- record NS 92 SW 2; monument 47427
- Wikidata
- Q31104301
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