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Castlehill Strip
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1751
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1751 (1751)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Wiston And Roberton
- National Grid reference
- NS 9291 3185
- Latitude
- 55.56855
- Longitude
- -3.69983
- Altitude
- 315 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.28 ha
- Footprint
- 0.65 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1816); Other (1859); 1st Identified Written Reference (1864); Earthwork Survey (1889); Earthwork Survey (1959); Other (1967); Earthwork Survey (1975); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2635
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10670
- National record
- record NS 93 SW 2; monument 47585
- Wikidata
- Q31104519
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1890) 'Forts, camps, and motes of the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 24 (1889-90), 281-352
- Irving and Murray, G V and A (1864) The upper ward of Lanarkshire described and delineated, 3v Glasgow
- RCAHMS (1978) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Lanarkshire: an inventory of the prehistoric and Roman monuments. HMSO: Edinburgh