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Castlehill, Candybank
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3226
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3226 (3226)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Biggar
- National Grid reference
- NT 0650 4119
- Latitude
- 55.65525
- Longitude
- -3.48757
- Altitude
- 303 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 1.5 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.39 ha, 1.5 ha
- Footprint
- 1.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (East); Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms, other roundhouse evidence, and quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1816); Other (1858); Earthwork Survey (1889); Earthwork Survey (1958); Other (1967); Other (1971); Earthwork Survey (1975); Other (2015)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2668
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 11109
- National record
- record NT 04 SE 4; monument 48950
- Wikidata
- Q31104572
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1890) 'Forts, camps, and motes of the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 24 (1889-90), 281-352
- RCAHMS. (1978) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Lanarkshire: an inventory of the prehistoric and Roman monuments. HMSO: Edinburgh