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Boghall
South Lanarkshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3506
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3506 (3506)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- South Lanarkshire
- Historic county
- Lanarkshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Biggar
- National Grid reference
- NT 0385 3659
- Latitude
- 55.61346
- Longitude
- -3.52792
- Altitude
- 205 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- valley bottom and knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1854); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1858); Earthwork Survey (1889); Earthwork Survey (1959); Other (1967); Earthwork Survey (1972); Other (1972)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2618
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10869
- National record
- record NT 03 NW 16; monument 48644
- Wikidata
- Q31104624
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1889-90) '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
- Hanson and Sharpe, W S and L (1998) 'Upper Clyde Valley Landscape Project, cropmark sites'. Disc Exc Scot (1998), 89
- RCAHMS (1978) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Lanarkshire: an inventory of the prehistoric and Roman monuments. HMSO: Edinburgh