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Berries Burn
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1667
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1667 (1667)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Crawford
- National Grid reference
- NS 9517 2187
- Latitude
- 55.47940
- Longitude
- -3.66022
- Altitude
- 290 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.33 ha
- Footprint
- 0.48 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Other (1864); Other (1889); Excavation (1939); Other (1959); Other (1967); Earthwork Survey (1968); Other (1975); Other (1978)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2616
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10469
- National record
- record NS 92 SE 1; monument 47384
- Wikidata
- Q31104379
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1890) 'Forts, camps, and motes of the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 24 (1889-90), 281-352
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 132)
- Irving and Murray, G V and A (1864) The upper ward of Lanarkshire described and delineated, 3v Glasgow
- Proc Prehist Soc (1939) 'Notes on excavations', Proc Prehist Soc 5 (1939), 257
- RCAHMS (1978) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Lanarkshire: an inventory of the prehistoric and Roman monuments. HMSO: Edinburgh