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Devonshaw Hill
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1635
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1635 (1635)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lamington And Wandel
- National Grid reference
- NS 9537 2835
- Latitude
- 55.53765
- Longitude
- -3.65951
- Altitude
- 305 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 2, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.24 ha
- Footprint
- 0.55 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- 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 (1816); Other (1859); Earthwork Survey (1889); Earthwork Survey (1959); Other (1959); Other (1967); Earthwork Survey (1975)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2502
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10428
- National record
- record NS 92 NE 1; monument 47343
- Wikidata
- Q31104345
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 133-1)
- RCAHMS (1978) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Lanarkshire: an inventory of the prehistoric and Roman monuments. HMSO: Edinburgh