Oblique aerial view.
SC 1727791
Description Oblique aerial view.
Date 1991
Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography
Catalogue Number SC 1727791
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of B 48873
Scope and Content Fort, Quothquan Law, Lanarkshire This fort occupies the summit of the conspicuous hill known as Quothquan Law. Irregular on plan, the defences follow the contours of the hill and comprise a single rampart enclosing the summit knoll, and double ramparts taking in a terrace on the northW. This aerial view from the NW, taken in winter, shows the double ramparts around the terrace on the NW and a contemporary trackway can be seen curling down from the entrance on the right. Traces of the rampart around the summit can also be detected. Numerous forts are found throughout the Border counties and into Lanarkshire. Most were occupied in the middle centuries of the first millennium BC. Some, as here but not visible on the photograph, contain traces of the stances of timber round-houses. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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