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Parkhouse
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1640
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1640 (1640)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Libberton
- National Grid reference
- NS 9872 3908
- Latitude
- 55.63473
- Longitude
- -3.61039
- Altitude
- 225 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 3, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.5 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, arable, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1983); Excavation (2012)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10575
- National record
- record NS 92 NE 33; monument 47490
- Wikidata
- Q31104009
Sources
References
- Suddaby, I 2012 Archaeological Watching Brief: Turbine Bases & Cable Trenches Parkhouse Farm, Quothquan, near Biggar, South Lanarkshire. CFA Archaeology Ltd