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Quothquan Law
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1704
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1704 (1704)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Libberton
- National Grid reference
- NS 9882 3842
- Latitude
- 55.62883
- Longitude
- -3.60856
- Altitude
- 334 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.13 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.7 ha, 1.13 ha
- Footprint
- 1.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- annex and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South west); Oblique (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1939); Other (1955); Earthwork Survey (1965); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1968); Other (1975); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2601
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10550
- National record
- record NS 93 NE 11; monument 47465
- Wikidata
- Q31104446
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- RCAHMS (1978) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Lanarkshire: an inventory of the prehistoric and Roman monuments. HMSO: Edinburgh