Oblique aerial view.
LA 2803
Description Oblique aerial view.
Date 1980
Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography
Catalogue Number LA 2803
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 573013, SC 1730522
Scope and Content Fort, Snaip Hill, Lanarkshire This fort encloses the irregular summit of Snaip Hill, overlooking the Clyde valley above Coulter. The defences comprise at least three ramparts, but it is not known whether these are contemporary or whether they represent separate phases of construction. Taken from the north-west under partial snow cover, this aerial view reveals the irregular character of the hilltop. The outermost rampart around the foot of the summit knoll is clear to see, but the two inner ramparts on the crest are barely visible. Large numbers of forts are found in the Border counties and Lanarkshire. Most were occupied in the middle centuries of the first millennium BC. The interiors of some contain surface traces of timber round-houses, but others, as here, are featureless. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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