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Cormiston Towers Farm
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1684
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1684 (1684)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Libberton
- National Grid reference
- NS 9989 3729
- Latitude
- 55.61890
- Longitude
- -3.59116
- Altitude
- 200 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 0, NW 4
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.18 ha
- Footprint
- 0.5 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1974); Other (1976); Other (1978)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10569
- National record
- record NS 93 NE 29; monument 47484
- Wikidata
- Q31104297
Sources
References
- RCAHMS (1978) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Lanarkshire: an inventory of the prehistoric and Roman monuments. HMSO: Edinburgh