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Keir Hill
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3239
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3239 (3239)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dolphinton
- National Grid reference
- NT 1001 4741
- Latitude
- 55.71178
- Longitude
- -3.43385
- Altitude
- 304 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 3, SW 3, NW 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.46 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1816); Other (1859); Other (1889); Earthwork Survey (1959); Earthwork Survey (1969); Other (1972)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 11176
- National record
- record NT 14 NW 11; monument 49995
- Wikidata
- Q31104547
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