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Shiel Burn
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1654
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1654 (1654)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lamington And Wandel
- National Grid reference
- NS 9655 2702
- Latitude
- 55.52600
- Longitude
- -3.64032
- Altitude
- 305 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.12 ha
- Footprint
- 0.24 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp and hillslope
- Aspect
- northwest
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1816); Other (1859); Earthwork Survey (1889); Other (1955); Other (1963); Earthwork Survey (1970); Other (1973)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10442
- National record
- record NS 92 NE 3; monument 47357
- Wikidata
- Q31104175
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1890) 'Forts, camps, and motes of the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 24 (1889-90), 281-352
- RCAHMS (1978) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Lanarkshire: an inventory of the prehistoric and Roman monuments. HMSO: Edinburgh