LiDAR 1m DTM Hillshade
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LiDAR 1m DTM Hillshade
Satellite Imagery
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HER: The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 10670 (None)
NMR: NS 93 SW 2 (47585)
SM: 2635
NGR: NS 9291 3185
X: 292910 Y: 631850 (OSGB36)
This fortified enclosure is situated in an old shelter belt on the N shoulder of a rounded summit WNW of Newton Farm. Roughly circular on plan it measures about 61m in diameter (0.28ha) within twin ramparts with a medial ditch about 5m in breadth. The inner rampart has been largely reduced to a scarp beneath the old plantation boundary, but the outer, which has been ploughed out on the SW, stands up to 1.2m in height above the bottom of the ditch. There are opposed entrances on the E and W respectively. Although the plan drawn up by RCAHMS shows no structures within the interior, David Christison identified two 'curved mounds' (Christison 1890, 319-20, fig 19), and the eastern is apparently visible on satellite imagery, which gives the impression of at least one large circular structure about 17m in overall diameter.
Citizen Science: ✗
Reliability of Data: Confirmed
Reliability of Interpretation: Confirmed
X: -411863 Y: 7473002 (EPSG: 3857)
Longitude: -3.6998271647222167 Latitude: 55.56855164802688 (EPSG:4326)
Country: Scotland
Current County or Unitary Authority: South Lanarkshire
Historic County: Lanarkshire
Current Parish/Community/Council/Townland: Wiston And Roberton
None
| Extant | ✓ |
| Cropmark | ✗ |
| Likely Destroyed | ✓ |
Former plantation
| Woodland | ✗ |
| Commercial Forestry Plantation | ✗ |
| Parkland | ✗ |
| Pasture (Grazing) | ✓ |
| Arable | ✗ |
| Scrub/Bracken | ✓ |
| Bare Outcrop | ✗ |
| Heather/Moorland | ✗ |
| Heath | ✗ |
| Built-up | ✗ |
| Coastal Grassland | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| Contour Fort | ✓ |
| Partial Contour Fort | ✗ |
| Promontory Fort | ✗ |
| Hillslope Fort | ✗ |
| Level Terrain Fort | ✗ |
| Marsh Fort | ✗ |
| Multiple Enclosure Fort | ✗ |
| Hilltop | ✓ |
| Coastal Promontory | ✗ |
| Inland Promontory | ✗ |
| Valley Bottom | ✗ |
| Knoll/Hillock/Outcrop | ✗ |
| Ridge | ✗ |
| Cliff/Plateau-edge/Scarp | ✗ |
| Hillslope | ✗ |
| Lowland | ✗ |
| Spur | ✗ |
Dominant Topographic Feature: None
| North | ✗ |
| Northeast | ✗ |
| East | ✗ |
| Southeast | ✗ |
| South | ✗ |
| Southwest | ✗ |
| West | ✗ |
| Northwest | ✗ |
| Level | ✓ |
Altitude: 315.0m
N/A
In the absence of excavation, there are neither stratified artefacts nor radiocarbon dates to provide a chronology for the defences.
Reliability: D - None
| Pre 1200BC | ✗ |
| 1200BC - 800BC | ✗ |
| 800BC - 400BC | ✗ |
| 400BC - AD50 | ✗ |
| AD50 - AD400 | ✗ |
| AD400 - AD 800 | ✗ |
| Post AD800 | ✗ |
| Unknown | ✓ |
| Pre Hillfort: | None |
| Post Hillfort: | Incorporated into a plantation |
First depicted on William Forrest's map of The County of Lanark from Actual Survey (1816), a single rampartis shown in 1859 on the 1st edition OS 25-inch map, by which time it had already been incorporated in to the shelter belt, though its interior is shown unplanted (Lanarkshire 1864, sheet 39.9). It was visited by George Irving about 1864 (Irving and Murray 1864, i, 26), and sketch-planned by David Christison in 1889 (Christison 1890, 319-20, fig 19). It was surveyed by RCAHMS in 1959 and revisited during the preparation of the County Inventory for Lanarkshire in 1975 (RCAHMS 1978, 147-8, no.284, fig 91). It was Scheduled in 1967, and the OS visited it in 1979. It was photographed by CUCAP in 1970, and by RCAHMS since.
| 1st Identified Map Depiction (1816): | William Forrest; The County of Lanark from Actual Survey (1816) |
| Other (1859): | Annotated Camp on the 1st edition OS 25-inch map (Lanarkshire 1864, sheet 39.9) |
| 1st Identified Written Reference (1864): | Description (Irving and Murray 1864, i, 26) |
| Earthwork Survey (1889): | Sketch-plan and description by David Christison (1890, 319-20, fig 19) |
| Earthwork Survey (1959): | Plan and description during RCAHMS Survey of Marginal Lands (RCAHMS LAD 156/1-2) |
| Other (1967): | Scheduled |
| Earthwork Survey (1975): | Earlier plan and description reviewed (RCAHMS 1978, 147-8, no.284, fig 91) |
| Other (1979): | Surveyed at 1:10.000 by the OS |
Possibly at least one large round-house
None
| None | ✓ |
| Spring | ✗ |
| Stream | ✗ |
| Pool | ✗ |
| Flush | ✗ |
| Well | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| No Known Features | ✗ |
| Round Stone Structures | ✗ |
| Rectangular Stone Structures | ✗ |
| Curvilinear Platforms | ✗ |
| Other Roundhouse Evidence | ✓ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| No Known Excavation | ✓ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Postholes | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
| Nothing Found | ✗ |
None
| No Known Geophysics | ✓ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✗ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Quarry Hollows | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
| Nothing Found | ✗ |
None
| No Known Finds | ✓ |
| Pottery | ✗ |
| Metal | ✗ |
| Metalworking | ✗ |
| Human Bones | ✗ |
| Animal Bones | ✗ |
| Lithics | ✗ |
| Environmental | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| APs Not Checked | ✗ |
| None | ✗ |
| Roundhouses | ✓ |
| Rectangular Structures | ✗ |
| Pits | ✗ |
| Postholes | ✗ |
| Roads/Tracks | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
See main summary
| 2: | None |
| 2: | None |
Guard Chambers: ✗
Chevaux de Frise: ✗
| 1. Simple Gap (East): | None |
| 2. Simple Gap (West): | None |
Twin ramparts with a medial ditch
| Area 1: | 0.28ha. |
| Total: | 0.28ha. |
Total Footprint Area: 0.65ha.
None
| ✗ | None |
| ✓ | None |
| NE Quadrant: | 2 |
| SE Quadrant: | 2 |
| SW Quadrant: | 1 |
| NW Quadrant: | 2 |
| Total: | 2 |
| Partial Univallate | ✓ |
| Univallate | ✗ |
| Partial Bivallate | ✓ |
| Bivallate | ✗ |
| Partial Multivallate | ✗ |
| Multivallate | ✗ |
| Unknown | ✗ |
| Partial Univallate | ✗ |
| Univallate | ✗ |
| Partial Bivallate | ✗ |
| Bivallate | ✗ |
| Partial Multivallate | ✗ |
| Multivallate | ✗ |
None
| None | ✗ |
| Earthen Bank | ✓ |
| Stone Wall | ✗ |
| Rubble | ✗ |
| Wall-walk | ✗ |
| Evidence of Timber | ✗ |
| Vitrification | ✗ |
| Other Burning | ✗ |
| Palisade | ✗ |
| Counter Scarp Bank | ✗ |
| Berm | ✗ |
| Unfinished | ✗ |
| Other | ✗ |
None
| None | ✗ |
| Earthen Bank | ✗ |
| Stone Wall | ✗ |
| Murus Duplex | ✗ |
| Timber-framed | ✗ |
| Timber-laced | ✗ |
| Vitrification | ✗ |
| Other Burning | ✗ |
| Palisade | ✗ |
| Counter Scarp Bank | ✗ |
| Berm | ✗ |
| Unfinished | ✗ |
| No Known Excavation | ✓ |
| Other | ✗ |
| ✗ | None |
| ✓ | None |
Number of Ditches: 1
| ✗ | None |
Christison, D (1890) 'Forts, camps, and motes of the Upper Ward of Lanarkshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 24 (1889-90), 281-352
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
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