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Bodsberry Hill
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1631
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1631 (1631)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Crawford
- National Grid reference
- NS 9637 1686
- Latitude
- 55.43466
- Longitude
- -3.63938
- Altitude
- 400 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 1, SE 2, SW 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 0.65 ha
- Footprint
- 1.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (South west); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
- Water source
- well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1773); 1st Identified Written Reference (1835); Earthwork Survey (1864); Excavation (1864); Earthwork Survey (1889); Earthwork Survey (1959); Other (1959); Other (1967); Earthwork Survey (1975)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2605
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10374
- National record
- record NS 91 NE 1; monument 47288
- Wikidata
- Q31104309
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Irving and Murray, G V and A (1864) The upper ward of Lanarkshire described and delineated, 3v Glasgow
- NSA (1834-1845) The new statistical account of Scotland by the ministers of the respective parishes under the superintendence of a committee of the society for the benefit of the sons and daughters of the clergy.
- RCAHMS (1978) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Lanarkshire: an inventory of the prehistoric and Roman monuments. HMSO: Edinburgh