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Field Visit
Date August 1974
Event ID 1123639
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1123639
NS988 384. This fort occupies the summit of Quothquan Law (334.7m OD), a conspicuous isolated hill situated 5 km W of Biggar and overlooking a pronounced bend in the River Clyde opposite Thankerton village. To the S and W the flanks of the hill fall sharply to the right bank of the river but in other directions the descent is more gradual. It comprises two elements, an upper (SE) enclosure surrounding the rocky summit knoll, and a lower, possibly later, annexe-like extension to the NW. The upper enclosure measures about 120m by 70m within what has probably been a wall, which has been almost completely denuded; except for short intermittent stretches on the NW, S and SE, where it appears as a slight stony bank, it has been reduced to a mere scarp or crest line. The main entrance is in the NE, where a track leads into the fort, and there is access to the annexe on the SW.
The annexe measures about 100m by 40m and is formed by double ramparts and a medial ditch, but the ramparts are now little more than scarps and the ditch has been almost completely filled in. In addition to the entrance communicating with the fort, there is another entrance in the SW. Within the interior there are at least seven crescentic house platforms measuring between 6.5m and 8.0m across. (See RCAHMS 1978 plan, fig.62).
RCAHMS 1978, visited 1974.
