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Publication Account
Date 1996
Event ID 1018985
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1018985
In Hamilton Parks, north-east of modern Hamilton near to the Clyde, there is a motte. This is all that remains of an early fortified structure (see area 1 & gazetteer) and it can be presumed that the early settlement clustered around this site. Settlers would have been attracted here because a fortified building offered a measure of protection to those nearby, while the castle and its occupants would have looked to their neighbours for labour and a supply of basic necessities. This is probably the first settlement site of Cadzow, or Hamilton as it became called-the Nethertoun.
Information from ‘Historic Hamilton: The Archaeological Implications of Development’ (1996).
