Black Mount
Ring Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Black Mount
Classification Ring Enclosure (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 198708
Site Number NT04NE 74
NGR NT 08519 45695
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/198708
- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish Dolphinton
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Clydesdale
- Former County Lanarkshire
NT04NE 74 08660 4563, 0855 4555 and 0870 4557
A survey of Black Mount Hill was carried out as part of the Biggar Museum 'Pre-History North of Biggar Project'.
NT 0860 4563 Ring enclosure.
NT 0855 4555 Cairn.
NT 0870 4557 Ring enclosure
Full report lodged with NMRS.
Sponsor: Biggar Museum trust
T Ward 1999
Field Visit (1998)
Ring Enclosure
On the SE flank of Black Mount at circa 350m OD there is a ring enclosure. It measures 17m in overall diameter with a well preserved grassy bank spreading to 3m wide by 0.7m high. There is no obvious gap in the bank to denote an entrance into the level featureless interior. The enclosure lies on a projecting spur of the hill, the ground on all sides of the site drop immediately and steeply down from it excepting that to the NW where there is a small level patch of ground.
Tam Ward, Biggar Archaeology Group, 1999
