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Camps Knowe Wood
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3217
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3217 (3217)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Crawford
- National Grid reference
- NT 0133 2286
- Latitude
- 55.48958
- Longitude
- -3.56315
- Altitude
- 380 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 5
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 5, NW 4
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.27 ha
- Footprint
- 0.75 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- In-turned (South east); Oblique (South east); Passage-way/Corridor (West); Oblique (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Earthwork Survey (1864); Earthwork Survey (1889); Other (1959); Other (1964); Other (1970); Earthwork Survey (1980); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2437
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10845
- National record
- record NT 02 SW 1; monument 48578
- Wikidata
- Q31104555
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1890) 'Forts, camps, and motes of the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 24 (1889-90), 281-352
- 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