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White Hill
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1722
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1722 (1722)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lamington And Wandel
- National Grid reference
- NS 9981 3274
- Latitude
- 55.57801
- Longitude
- -3.59078
- Altitude
- 250 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Footprint
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1793); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1816); Other (1859); Earthwork Survey (1889); Other (1955); Other (1963); Earthwork Survey (1970); Other (1975); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10612
- National record
- record NS 93 SE 11; monument 47527
- Wikidata
- Q31104334
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