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Black Hill, Crawfordjohn
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1669
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1669 (1669)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Crawfordjohn
- National Grid reference
- NS 9085 2392
- Latitude
- 55.49687
- Longitude
- -3.72935
- Altitude
- 335 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
- 0.3 ha
- Footprint
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble, palisade, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1773); Other (1816); Other (1858); Earthwork Survey (1889); Other (1942); Other (1963); Other (1967); Earthwork Survey (1975); Other (1978); Other (1996)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2606
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10501
- National record
- record NS 92 SW 1; monument 47416
- Wikidata
- Q31104414
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 134)
- RCAHMS (1978) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Lanarkshire: an inventory of the prehistoric and Roman monuments. HMSO: Edinburgh