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Cross Ridge
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1721
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1721 (1721)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Carmichael
- National Grid reference
- NS 9333 3785
- Latitude
- 55.62253
- Longitude
- -3.69549
- Altitude
- 305 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.25 ha
- Footprint
- 1.36 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (2010)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service
- National record
- record NS 93 NW 51; monument 318516
- Wikidata
- Q31104330
Sources