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Hillhead
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1790
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1790 (1790)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Covington And Thankerton
- National Grid reference
- NS 9816 4018
- Latitude
- 55.64450
- Longitude
- -3.61969
- Altitude
- 220 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.25 ha, 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southeast
- Land use
- pasture, arable, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1855); Other (1957); Other (1968); Other (1969); Other (1977)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10737
- National record
- record NS 94 SE 23; monument 47653
- Wikidata
- Q31104382
Sources
References
- Irving, G V (1855) 'On ancient camps of the upper ward of Lanarkshire', J Brit Archaeol Ass 10 (1855), 1-32
- RCAHMS (1978) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Lanarkshire: an inventory of the prehistoric and Roman monuments. HMSO: Edinburgh