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Toftcombs
South Lanarkshire, Scotland · Atlas SC3229
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3229 (3229)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Biggar
- National Grid reference
- NT 0539 3959
- Latitude
- 55.64066
- Longitude
- -3.50466
- Altitude
- 310 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
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.25 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.13 ha, 0.25 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (East); Passage-way/Corridor (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and other roundhouse evidence
- Finds
- metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1726); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1858); Earthwork Survey (1889); Earthwork Survey (1932); Earthwork Survey (1959); Other (1967); Other (1972); Earthwork Survey (1975)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2611
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10850
- National record
- record NT 03 NE 1; monument 48584
- Wikidata
- Q31104577
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1890) 'Forts, camps, and motes of the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 24 (1889-90), 281-352
- Gordon, A (1726) Itinerarium Septentrionale: or A Journey Thro most of the Counties of Scotland And Those in the North of England. London
- RCAHMS. (1978) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Lanarkshire: an inventory of the prehistoric and Roman monuments. HMSO: Edinburgh