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St John's Kirk
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1717
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1717 (1717)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Covington And Thankerton
- National Grid reference
- NS 9796 3611
- Latitude
- 55.60790
- Longitude
- -3.62136
- Altitude
- 285 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.25 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1858); Earthwork Survey (1889); Other (1968); Earthwork Survey (1969); Other (1970); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2634
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10596
- National record
- record NS 93 NE 8; monument 47511
- Wikidata
- Q31104499
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