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Woodend Burn
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1643
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1643 (1643)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lamington And Wandel
- National Grid reference
- NS 9607 2812
- Latitude
- 55.53573
- Longitude
- -3.64833
- Altitude
- 310 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.21 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1970); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1979)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10437
- National record
- record NS 92 NE 18; monument 47352
- Wikidata
- Q31104100
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