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Cairngryffe Hill
South Lanarkshire, Scotland · Atlas SC1820
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1820 (1820)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Pettinain
- National Grid reference
- NS 9429 4116
- Latitude
- 55.65247
- Longitude
- -3.68153
- Altitude
- 340 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.15 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
Dating
- Dating
- AD 50–400 and undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- postholes
- Finds
- metal and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1816); Earthwork Survey (1854); Other (1858); Earthwork Survey (1889); Other (1939); Excavation (1939)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10771
- National record
- record NS 94 SW 11; monument 47688
- Wikidata
- Q31104411
Sources
References
- Childe, V G (1941) 'Examination of the prehistoric fort on Cairngryfe Hill, near Lanark', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 75 (1940-41), 213-18
- Christison, D (1890) 'Forts, camps, and motes of the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 24 (1889-90), 281-352
- 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