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Lamington

South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1755

Location

Atlas number
SC1755 (1755)
Country
Scotland
Current county or unitary authority
South Lanarkshire
Historic county
Lanarkshire
Parish, community, or townland
Lamington And Wandel
National Grid reference
NS 9765 3103
Latitude
55.56221
Longitude
-3.62439
Altitude
210 m

Form and condition

Type
promontory fort and level-terrain fort
Condition
Cropmark
Morphology
partial bivallate
Complete rampart circuit
No
Number of ramparts
2
Ramparts by quadrant
NE 2, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
Number of ditches
2
Possible original entrances
0
Breaks through the ramparts
0
Enclosed area
0.37 ha
Footprint
0.55 ha
Also recorded
ditches

Landscape

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

Dating

Dating
undated
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Investigations
Other (1978)

Identifiers

HER
The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10643
National record
record NS 93 SE 39; monument 47558
Wikidata
Q31104368

Sources