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Greenaton

South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1770

Location

Atlas number
SC1770 (1770)
Country
Scotland
Current county or unitary authority
South Lanarkshire
Historic county
Lanarkshire
Parish, community, or townland
Carnwath
National Grid reference
NS 9888 4772
Latitude
55.71237
Longitude
-3.61104
Altitude
220 m

Form and condition

Type
level-terrain fort
Condition
Extant and Cropmark
Morphology
partial univallate and partial multivallate
Complete rampart circuit
No
Number of ramparts
3
Ramparts by quadrant
NE 1, SE 3, SW 0, NW 0
Number of ditches
2
Possible original entrances
0
Breaks through the ramparts
0
Enclosed area
0.28 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
earthen bank
Also recorded
ditches

Landscape

Topographic position
valley bottom
Aspect
level
Land use
pasture and arable

Dating

Dating
undated
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Investigations
Other (1995); Other (2005)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
11214
HER
The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 40778
National record
record NS 94 NE 35; monument 146060
Wikidata
Q31104526

Sources