Blairlinn
Earthwork (Prehistoric) - (Medieval)(Possible), Promontory Fort (Prehistoric) - (Medieval)(Possible)
Site Name Blairlinn
Classification Earthwork (Prehistoric) - (Medieval)(Possible), Promontory Fort (Prehistoric) - (Medieval)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Lenzie Mill
Canmore ID 45924
Site Number NS77SE 3
NGR NS 7582 7299
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/45924
- Council North Lanarkshire
- Parish New Monkland (Monklands)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Monklands
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS77SE 3 7582 7299.
NS 758 729. Earthwork, Blairlinn (Site): The crop mark of an earthwork lying 490m WNW of Luggie Bridge is visible on air photographs taken in 1947 (82/RAF/1236/F21: 0187-8). The site, formerly in arable land but now buried by part of the Blairlinn Industrial Area, occupies the NW tip of a stretch of level ground bounded on the N and W by the river cliff of the Luggie Water. The angle of land thus formed above the river has been cut off by a ditch approximately 80m long and 5m wide, the area enclosed being roughly triangular in shape and measuring 75m from SW to NE by 60m transversely.
RCAHMS 1978, visited 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 (September 1974)
Blairlinn NS 758 729 NS77SE
Cropmarks reveal the ditch of an earthwork cutting off a steep-sided promontory immediately N of the Blairlinn Industrial Area. The ditch is about 5m broad, and the roughly triangular area that it defines measures 60m by a maximum of 75m.
RCAHMS 1982, visited September 1974
(RCAHMS 1978, p. 145, No. 271)
Note (14 August 2014 - 15 August 2016)
This enclosure occupied a steep-sided promontory on the S bank of the Luggie Water, but it has been completely subsumed into an industrial development. The defences comprised a ditch some 5m in breadth, presumably originally with an internal rampart, which cut off the level S and E approaches to the promontory; the roughly triangular interior measured a maximum of 75m from NE to SE by 60m transversely (0.22ha). Only known from vertical aerial photographs taken in 1947 (82/RAF/1236/F21: 0187-8), the interior is featureless and no entrance is recorded.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 15 August 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC1490
