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Cow Castle
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3233
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3233 (3233)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Culter
- National Grid reference
- NT 0425 3311
- Latitude
- 55.58223
- Longitude
- -3.52050
- Altitude
- 319 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 2, SW 4, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.34 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.2 ha, 0.34 ha
- Footprint
- 0.65 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (North); Over-lapping (South west); Simple Gap (South west); Oblique (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence and quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1816); Earthwork Survey (1855); Other (1859); Earthwork Survey (1889); Earthwork Survey (1959); Other (1965); Other (1972); Earthwork Survey (1975); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2507
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10927
- National record
- record NT 03 SW 14; monument 48745
- Wikidata
- Q31104579
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1890) 'Forts, camps, and motes of the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 24 (1889-90), 281-352
- 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