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Carwood
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3232
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3232 (3232)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Biggar
- National Grid reference
- NT 0410 3997
- Latitude
- 55.64387
- Longitude
- -3.52528
- Altitude
- 240 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort and level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.35 ha
- Footprint
- 0.49 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1986); Other (2003)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10915
- National record
- record NT 03 NW 62; monument 48697
- Wikidata
- Q31104476
Sources
References
- Fulford, H & Coleman, R 2003 Biggar to Walston Overhead Line Rebuild: Results of an archaeological watching brief. Headland Archaeology Ltd