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Castle Hill, Crawford
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1671
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1671 (1671)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Crawford
- National Grid reference
- NS 9355 2188
- Latitude
- 55.47915
- Longitude
- -3.68585
- Altitude
- 290 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.06 ha
- Footprint
- 0.27 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall, rubble, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (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
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1816); Other (1859); Earthwork Survey (1889); Other (1959); Earthwork Survey (1961); Other (1975); Other (1978); Other (1993); Other (2015)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2614
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10509
- National record
- record NS 92 SW 17; monument 47424
- Wikidata
- Q31104417
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