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Collins Burn
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1633
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1633 (1633)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Crawford
- National Grid reference
- NS 9507 1865
- Latitude
- 55.45046
- Longitude
- -3.66059
- Altitude
- 280 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.23 ha
- Footprint
- 0.45 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- valley bottom and knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1959); Earthwork Survey (1965); Other (1978); Other (1988)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4527
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10397
- National record
- record NS 91 NE 4; monument 47311
- Wikidata
- Q31104321
Sources
References
- RCAHMS (1978a) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Lanarkshire: an inventory of the prehistoric and Roman monuments. HMSO: Edinburgh