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Moor Plantation
Plantation Bank (Period Unassigned), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name Moor Plantation
Classification Plantation Bank (Period Unassigned), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 47365
Site Number NS92NW 10
NGR NS 9311 2542
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/47365
- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish Crawfordjohn
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Clydesdale
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS92NW 10 9311 2542.
(NS 9311 2542) This site, on air photograph taken by Wg Cdr Insall, appears to be a central keep approached by an entrance between converging banks.
O G S Crawford 1930
The centre is a building of no great age (slate fragments etc): the rest are garden and similar enclosures.
Information from O G S Crawford 5 November 1938
Visible on RAF APs (106G.Scot.UK 86: 3363-4)
Quite clearly an old plantation, tree stumps are still to be seen in the bank and within the enclosure. No evidence for a building was found.
Visited by OS (JLD) 20 July 1955
Two concentric circular earth and stone banked enclosures, 22.0m and 82.0m in diameter. They both have an entrance in the south west joined by two more banks to form an aisle 8.0 m wide. There is a sub-rectangular bank enclosure built against the outside of the inner circle. The banks vary in size from 0.3m to 0.6m high and from 1.5m to 3.5m wide. These post-Medieval enclosures are laid out in a very precise order and are not mutilated.
Visited by OS (BS) 2 August 1978
Geophysical Survey (February 1990)
Detailed survey of several sites in the area prior to the M74 motorway.
Field Visit (2004 - 2012)
A ruinous stell lies with a group of enclosure banks lying on the summit of a broad knoll in semi improved ground. These are part of sheep management enclosures.
Tam Ward, Biggar Archaeology Group, 2004-2012
