Location
- Atlas number
- SC1715 (1715)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Covington And Thankerton
- National Grid reference
- NS 9619 3674
- Latitude
- 55.61318
- Longitude
- -3.64968
- Altitude
- 280 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.27 ha
- Footprint
- 0.78 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (North east); Passage-way/Corridor (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- valley bottom
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1816); Other (1858); Other (1864); Earthwork Survey (1889); Earthwork Survey (1959); Other (1967); Other (1968); Other (1975)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2610
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10594
- National record
- record NS 93 NE 6; monument 47509
- Wikidata
- Q31104488
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1890) 'Forts, camps, and motes of the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 24 (1889-90), 281-352
- Irving and Murray, G V and A (1864) The upper ward of Lanarkshire described and delineated, 3v Glasgow
- RCAHMS (1978) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Lanarkshire: an inventory of the prehistoric and Roman monuments. HMSO: Edinburgh