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Langloch Knowe

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Sheepfold (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Langloch Knowe

Classification Sheepfold (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Nisbet, Hut Circle

Canmore ID 48756

Site Number NT03SW 24

NGR NT 0428 3300

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Cow Castle, oblique aerial view, taken from the NW, centred on a fort and settlement site, with Langloch Knowe fort and cultivation terraces to the top of the photograph.
Cow Castle, oblique aerial view, taken from the NW, centred on a fort and settlement site, with Langloch Knowe fort and cultivation terraces to the top of the photograph.Langloch Knowe, oblique aerial view, taken from the NW, centred on cultivation terraces with a fort to the left of the photograph.Langloch Knowe, oblique aerial view, taken from the E, centred on cultivation terraces and a fort.Cow Castle, oblique aerial view, taken from the NW, centred on a fort and settlement site, with Langloch Knowe fort and cultivation terraces to the top of the photograph.Langloch Knowe, NT03SW 24, Ordnance Survey index card, RectoCow Castle, oblique aerial view, taken from the N, centred on a settlement site, with a sheepfold to the left of the photograph.Langloch Knowe, NT03SW 24, Ordnance Survey index card, RectoLangloch Knowe, oblique aerial view, taken from the W, centred on cultivation terraces and a fort, with another fort and settlement to the left of the photograph.Oblique aerial view.Oblique aerial view.Langloch Knowe, oblique aerial view, taken from the W, centred on cultivation terraces and a fort.

Administrative Areas

  • Council South Lanarkshire
  • Parish Culter
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Clydesdale
  • Former County Lanarkshire

Archaeology Notes

NT03SW 24 0428 3300.

(NT 0428 3300) Sheepfold (NAT)

OS 6" map, (1962).

Hut Circle (NR)

OS 6" map, Lanarkshire, 2nd ed., (1912).

A ring enclosure is situated at the foot of the NW slope of Langloch Knowe and just above the floor of the small pass betwen Langloch Knowe and the Cow Castle ridge.

It measures 25' in diameter within a bank 9' thick and 1' high. There is a possible entrance on NW. The interior is heather-covered.

D Christison 1890; Information RCAHMS Mss notes, visited 1965.

As described. The fact that it is built on a slope with no certain entrance suggests it to be a sheepfold.

Visited by OS(DWR) 18 July 1972.

Though this enclosure is scheduled as a "hut circle", it does not appear in the RCAHMS inventory of prehistoric monuments in Lanarkshire.

Information from OS Recorder 27 June 1978; and Typescript list of Scheduled Monuments 1977 unpaged (DoE); RCAHMS 1978.

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