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Snaip Hill
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3236
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3236 (3236)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Culter
- National Grid reference
- NT 0246 3269
- Latitude
- 55.57810
- Longitude
- -3.54874
- Altitude
- 362 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 3, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.13 ha, 0.6 ha
- Footprint
- 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and rubble
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Oblique (South east); Simple Gap (South west); Simple Gap (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
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1773); Earthwork Survey (1855); Other (1859); Earthwork Survey (1889); Earthwork Survey (1959); Other (1968); Earthwork Survey (1970); Other (1972)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2648
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10959
- National record
- record NT 03 SW 44; monument 48778
- Wikidata
- Q31104598
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