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Wyndales Farm

South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1737

Location

Atlas number
SC1737 (1737)
Country
Scotland
Current county or unitary authority
South Lanarkshire
Historic county
Lanarkshire
Parish, community, or townland
Symington
National Grid reference
NS 9805 3262
Latitude
55.57661
Longitude
-3.61862
Altitude
210 m

Form and condition

Type
level-terrain fort
Condition
Cropmark
Morphology
partial bivallate
Complete rampart circuit
No
Number of ramparts
2
Ramparts by quadrant
NE 2, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
Number of ditches
2
Possible original entrances
1
Breaks through the ramparts
1
Enclosed area
0.52 ha
Also recorded
ditches
Entrance forms
Simple Gap (South west)

Landscape

Topographic position
cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
Aspect
level
Land use
pasture and arable

Dating

Dating
undated
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Investigations
1st Identified Written Reference (1971); Other (1975); Other (1979)

Identifiers

HER
The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10627
National record
record NS 93 SE 25; monument 47542
Wikidata
Q31104336

Sources

References

  1. RCAHMS (1978) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Lanarkshire: an inventory of the prehistoric and Roman monuments. HMSO: Edinburgh