Castle Hill, Colzium
Motte (Medieval)
Site Name Castle Hill, Colzium
Classification Motte (Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Craigstone Wood, Castle Hill
Canmore ID 45884
Site Number NS77NW 19
NGR NS 73500 78240
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/45884
- Council North Lanarkshire
- Parish Kilsyth (North Lanarkshire)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Cumbernauld And Kilsyth
- Former County Stirlingshire
NS77NW 19 7350 7823.
(NS 7350 7823) Castle Hill (NAT) Motte (NR)
OS 6" map (1968)
Motte, Castle Hill, Colzium: A rocky mound, about 1.8m high, at the S end of a roughly oval natural knoll which measures 61.0m N-S by 8.2m transversely, has been dressed to form a level circular platform 9.1m in diameter. There is no trace of the timber structure which was presumably erected on this platform.
RCAHMS 1963, visited 1953; 1982
A motte as described.
Revised at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (VEL) 2 March 1954 and (JP) 17 January 1974
Reference (1957)
This site is noted in the ‘List of monuments discovered during the survey of marginal land (1951-5)’ (RCAHMS 1957, xiv-xviii).
Information from RCAHMS (GFG), 24 October 2012.
Field Visit (February 1982)
Castle Hill, Colzium NS 735 782 NS77NW 19
A rocky mound, about 1.8m high, at the S end of a natural knoll, has been dressed to form a level circular platform 9.1m in diameter.
RCAHMS 1982, visited February 1982
(RCAHMS 1963, p. 173, No. 181)
