Cold Chapel

NS92NW 7 9378 2512.

(NS 93782512) Earthwork (NAT).

OS 6" map (1955)

This settlement was in a similar condition (cf. RCAHMS 1978) when seen in 1955.

Visited by OS (JLD) 20 July 1955

RCAHMS surveyed this settlement by plane-table on 23 August 1967 at a scale of 1mm:1ft. The resultant plan was redrawn in ink in 1974 (traces of later cultivation were removed) and published in the County Inventory of Lanarkshire (RCAHMS 1978) as Fig. 38.

NS 937 251. A settlement is situated 430m NNE of Cold Chapel farmhouse, and at a height of 250m OD, on gently sloping ground near the foot of the W slopes of White Hill. Oval on plan, it is bounded by what has been a massive bank of earth and stones which encloses an area measuring 78m by 69m; there is no trace of a ditch. Although considerably denuded, the bank still stands to a maximum height of 3.7m externally and 2.1m internally. The three gaps in the bank all appear to be original entrances.

The interior, the level of which falls 9.1m from E to W, bears clear indications of later cultivation, especially in the lower (W) half, but in the higher (E) half at least nine crescentic house-platforms can be distinguished.

RCAHMS 1978, visited August 1975

NS92NW 7 9378 2512.

A settlement as described above.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (BS) 25 July 1978

Detailed survey of several sites in the area prior to the M74 motorway.