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Westside
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1746
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1746 (1746)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Symington
- National Grid reference
- NS 9857 3408
- Latitude
- 55.58979
- Longitude
- -3.61093
- Altitude
- 230 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- valley bottom and 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 Map Depiction (1773); Other (1816); Other (1859); Other (1889); Other (1955); Other (1968); Earthwork Survey (1969); Other (1979); Geophysical Survey (1999)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2741
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10644
- National record
- record NS 93 SE 4; monument 47559
- Wikidata
- Q31104510
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
- Sharpe and Hamer, L and J (1999) 'Westside (Symington parish), geophysical survey; ?settlement', Disc Exc Scot 1999, 85