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Yett
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1816
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1816 (1816)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Libberton
- National Grid reference
- NS 9811 4274
- Latitude
- 55.66748
- Longitude
- -3.62143
- Altitude
- 190 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.21 ha
- Footprint
- 0.6 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1972); Other (1974)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10749
- National record
- record NS 94 SE 34; monument 47665
- Wikidata
- Q31104399
Sources
References
- RCAHMS (1978) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Lanarkshire: an inventory of the prehistoric and Roman monuments. HMSO: Edinburgh