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Chester Hill
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1702
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1702 (1702)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Covington And Thankerton
- National Grid reference
- NS 9532 3953
- Latitude
- 55.63806
- Longitude
- -3.66455
- Altitude
- 305 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
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.55 ha
- Footprint
- 1.25 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Blocked (South); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1755); Other (1816); Other (1858); Other (1864); Earthwork Survey (1889); Other (1959); Other (1963); Other (1967); Other (1968); Earthwork Survey (1976); Geophysical Survey (1998)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2598
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10548
- National record
- record NS 93 NE 1; monument 47463
- Wikidata
- Q31104430
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, G V (1855) 'On ancient camps of the upper ward of Lanarkshire', J Brit Archaeol Ass 10 (1855), 1-32
- Irving and Murray, G V and A (1864) The upper ward of Lanarkshire described and delineated, 3v Glasgow
- Lelong and Sharpe, O and L (1999) 'Blackhouse Burn environs (Chester Hill, Swaites Hill, Cairngryffe Hill) (Carmichael; Covington & Thankerton parishes), cairns; hut circles; enclosures', Disc Exc Scot 1999, 82
- RCAHMS (1978) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Lanarkshire: an inventory of the prehistoric and Roman monuments. HMSO: Edinburgh