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Longwell
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1641
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1641 (1641)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Wiston And Roberton
- National Grid reference
- NS 9589 2976
- Latitude
- 55.55043
- Longitude
- -3.65180
- Altitude
- 220 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.15 ha
- Footprint
- 0.35 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1976)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10435
- National record
- record NS 92 NE 1; monument 47349
- Wikidata
- Q31104059
Sources
References
- RCAHMS (1978) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Lanarkshire: an inventory of the prehistoric and Roman monuments. HMSO: Edinburgh