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Culterpark Hill

South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3235

Location

Atlas number
SC3235 (3235)
Country
Scotland
Current county or unitary authority
South Lanarkshire
Historic county
Lanarkshire
Parish, community, or townland
Culter
National Grid reference
NT 0221 3305
Latitude
55.58129
Longitude
-3.55283
Altitude
292 m

Form and condition

Type
contour fort
Condition
Extant
Morphology
bivallate
Complete rampart circuit
Yes
Number of ramparts
2
Number of ditches
1
Possible original entrances
1
Breaks through the ramparts
1
Enclosed area
0.21 ha
Footprint
0.48 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
earthen bank
Also recorded
ditches
Entrance forms
Simple Gap (South west)

Landscape

Topographic position
hilltop
Aspect
level
Land use
pasture and heather moorland

Dating

Dating
undated
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Investigations
1st Identified Map Depiction (1816); 1st Identified Written Reference (1855); Other (1859); Earthwork Survey (1889); Earthwork Survey (1959); Other (1959); Other (1968); Other (1970); Other (1972); Other (1979); Other (2014)

Identifiers

Scheduled monument number
2646
HER
The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10931
National record
record NT 03 SW 18; monument 48749
Wikidata
Q31104587

Sources

References

  1. Christison, D (1890) 'Forts, camps, and motes of the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 24 (1889-90), 281-352
  2. Irving, G V (1855) 'On ancient camps of the upper ward of Lanarkshire'. J Brit Archaeol Ass 10 (1855), 1-32
  3. Irving and Murray, G V and A (1864) The upper ward of Lanarkshire described and delineated, 3v Glasgow
  4. RCAHMS. (1978) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Lanarkshire: an inventory of the prehistoric and Roman monuments. HMSO: Edinburgh