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West Lindsaylands
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3230
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3230 (3230)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Biggar
- National Grid reference
- NT 0157 3657
- Latitude
- 55.61279
- Longitude
- -3.56416
- Altitude
- 198 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort and level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 7
- Enclosed area
- 0.39 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- palisade and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1968); Other (1970); Other (1972)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10889
- National record
- record NT 03 NW 35; monument 48665
- Wikidata
- Q31104463
Sources
References
- RCAHMS. (1978) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Lanarkshire: an inventory of the prehistoric and Roman monuments. HMSO: Edinburgh
- RCAHMS. (1997) Eastern Dumfriesshire: an archaeological landscape. HMSO: Edinburgh