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Covington Mains
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1799
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1799 (1799)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Covington And Thankerton
- National Grid reference
- NS 9756 4029
- Latitude
- 55.64536
- Longitude
- -3.62926
- Altitude
- 235 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 3, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.15 ha
- Footprint
- 0.33 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- southwest
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1854); Other (1977)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10743
- National record
- record NS 94 SE 29; monument 47659
- Wikidata
- Q31104389
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