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Castle Dykes, Roberton
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1666
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1666 (1666)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Wiston And Roberton
- National Grid reference
- NS 9425 2871
- Latitude
- 55.54064
- Longitude
- -3.67739
- Altitude
- 230 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- valley bottom
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Other (1942); Other (1952); Other (1955); Other (1967); Other (1978)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2596
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10449
- National record
- record NS 92 NW 1; monument 47364
- Wikidata
- Q31104354
Sources
References
- Radford, C A R, Reid, R C, Robertson, J and Truckell, A E (1953) 'Roman Roads in SW Scotland. (4) From Castledykes (Corbiehall) to Crawford'. Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc, 3 Ser, 31 (1952-3), 30-4
- Reid, R C (1957) 'Castledykes, Roberton'. Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc, 3 Ser, 35 (1956-7), 141-2