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Knowe Dod

Cultivation Terrace(S) (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Knowe Dod

Classification Cultivation Terrace(S) (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 48782

Site Number NT03SW 48

NGR NT 034 320

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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

Archaeology Notes

NT03SW 48 034 320.

There is a rather wasted group of cultivation terraces on the right bank of the Culter Water below Nisbet fort (NT03SW 45) and between the 850' and 950' contours.

Information from RCAHMS typescript, visited 1965.

NT 034 320: Eight cultivation terraces up to 120m long, with lynchets up to 3.2m high.

Visited by OS(DWR) 12 July 1972.

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