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Langloch Knowe
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3234
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3234 (3234)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Culter
- National Grid reference
- NT 0438 3294
- Latitude
- 55.58073
- Longitude
- -3.51838
- Altitude
- 324 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 3, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.09 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.05 ha, 0.09 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1859); Earthwork Survey (1889); Earthwork Survey (1957); Other (1959); Other (1967); Earthwork Survey (1975); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2636
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10929
- National record
- record NT 03 SW 16; monument 48747
- Wikidata
- Q31104581
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1890) 'Forts, camps, and motes of the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 24 (1889-90), 281-352
- RCAHMS. (1978) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Lanarkshire: an inventory of the prehistoric and Roman monuments. HMSO: Edinburgh