Black Hill, Crawfordjohn, oblique aerial view, taken from the NE, centred on a fort and palisaded enclosure, and the surrounding cultivation remains including cord rig.

Description Black Hill, Crawfordjohn, oblique aerial view, taken from the NE, centred on a fort and palisaded enclosure, and the surrounding cultivation remains including cord rig.

Date 20/2/1996

Collection RCAHMS Aerial Photography

Catalogue Number C 55917 CN

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 573161, SC 1727672

Scope and Content Fort, Black Hill, Crawfordjohn, Lanarkshire This multi-period fort lies on the crest of the SE spur of Black Hill. The latest element of the defences is a stone-walled enclosure, which lies within an earlier rampart and ditch. Outside the latter an arc of palisade trench can be seen on the S. Taken from the E, this aerial photograph shows the fort under a light dusting of snow. The walled enclosure can be seen within the interior, its far side overlain by a circular sheepfold, and the palisade trench is visible outside the ditch on the left. Large numbers of forts are found throughout the Border counties and into Lanarkshire. Most were occupied in the middle centuries of the first millennium BC and some, as here, reveal evidence that they were preceded by timber-built enclosures. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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