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Craigie Burn
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1779
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1779 (1779)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Libberton
- National Grid reference
- NS 9884 4185
- Latitude
- 55.65964
- Longitude
- -3.60950
- Altitude
- 210 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.38 ha
- Footprint
- 1.13 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (East); Passage-way/Corridor (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1792); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1816); Other (1858); Other (1864); Other (1889); Other (1963); Other (1968); Other (1969); Geophysical Survey (1999); Excavation (1999); Geophysical Survey (2006)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10732
- National record
- record NS 94 SE 19; monument 47648
- Wikidata
- Q31104380
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1890) 'Forts, camps, and motes of the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 24 (1889-90), 281-352
- Harding and Lee, A F and G E (1987) Henge monuments and related sites of Great Britain: air photographic evidence and catalogue, Brit Archaeol Rep, BAR British, vol.175 Oxford
- 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
- Sharpe and Hamer, L and J (1999) 'Craigie Burn (Libberton parish), geophysical survey of ?henge', Disc Exc Scot 1999, 84-85
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99