Snaip Hill
House Platform(S) (Prehistoric), Settlement (Prehistoric)
Site Name Snaip Hill
Classification House Platform(S) (Prehistoric), Settlement (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 48748
Site Number NT03SW 17
NGR NT 03012 32886
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/48748
- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish Culter
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Clydesdale
- Former County Lanarkshire
Field Visit (18 August 1959)
RCAHMS surveyed the settlement at Snaip Hill by plane-table on 18 August 1959 as part of a survey of marginal land. The resultant plan was checked in the field before being redrawn in ink in 1974 and published at a reduced size in the County Inventory of Lanarkshire (RCAHMS 1978, Fig. 44)
Aerial Photography (1969)
Field Visit (July 1970)
NT 030 328. This settlement is situated on the steep NE slopes of Snaip Hill, overlooking the Culter Water from a height of 275m OD. It measures 53m by 46m within what was probably a boulder-faced rubble wall, but no facing stones are now visible, and what remains of the core material has spread to form a low grassy bank. The entrance, 3.7m wide, is on the NW; of the two other gaps in the bank, situated on the ENE and SE respectively, the former has been caused by a modern quarry and the latter by cultivation.
The interior, the level of which falls by 6m from SSW to NNE, contains a series of house-platforms disposed on different levels. (See RCAHMS 1978 plan, fig.44).
RCAHMS 1978, visited July 1970.
Field Visit (10 July 1972)
NT03SW 17 0300 3287.
(NT 0300 3287) Enclosure (NR)
OS 6" map, (1962).
A settlement, generally as described by the RCAHMS.
Resurveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS(DWR) 10 July 1972.
