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Cocklaw Hill
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3227
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3227 (3227)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Walston
- National Grid reference
- NT 0421 4284
- Latitude
- 55.66962
- Longitude
- -3.52453
- Altitude
- 310 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.77 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.45 ha, 0.77 ha
- Footprint
- 0.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (North east); Passage-way/Corridor (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1793); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1816); Other (1840); Other (1855); Other (1859); Other (1889); Earthwork Survey (1959); Earthwork Survey (1969); Other (1971); Other (1999)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 11139
- National record
- record NT 04 SW 3; monument 48981
- Wikidata
- Q31104443
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1890) 'Forts, camps, and motes of the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 24 (1889-90), 281-352
- Dalland, M , Headland Archaeology Ltd. (1999) Archaeological Evaluation: Cocklaw Farm, Elsrickle, South Lanarkshire
- Irving, G V (1855) 'On ancient camps of the upper ward of Lanarkshire'. J Brit Archaeol Ass 10 (1855), 1-32
- 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