Langloch Knowe | Canmore

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Cultivation Terrace(S) (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Langloch Knowe

Classification Cultivation Terrace(S) (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 48790

Site Number NT03SW 55

NGR NT 0442 3307

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/48790

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Scanned image of an oblique aerial view, taken from the WSW, centred on a fort and settlement site, with Nisbet settlement site and cultivation terraces to the top of the photograph.

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Scanned image of an oblique aerial view, taken from the WSW, centred on a fort and settlement site, with Nisbet settlement site and cultivation terraces to the top of the photograph.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

22/2/1996

© Crown Copyright: HES

Oblique aerial view.

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Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1991

© Crown Copyright: HES

Scanned image of an oblique aerial view.

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Scanned image of an oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1991

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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.

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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.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

22/2/1996

© Crown Copyright: HES

Oblique aerial view.

SC 1730394

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1991

© Crown Copyright: HES

Oblique aerial view.

SC 1730401

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1991

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Langloch Knowe, oblique aerial view, taken from the NW, centred on cultivation terraces with a fort to the left of the photograph.

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Langloch Knowe, oblique aerial view, taken from the NW, centred on cultivation terraces with a fort to the left of the photograph.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

22/2/1996

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Langloch Knowe, oblique aerial view, taken from the E, centred on cultivation terraces and a fort.

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Langloch Knowe, oblique aerial view, taken from the E, centred on cultivation terraces and a fort.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

22/2/1996

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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.

SC 1730608

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.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

22/2/1996

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Langloch Knowe, NT03SW 55, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Langloch Knowe, NT03SW 55, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

c. 1958

© Crown Copyright: HES (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division)

Oblique aerial view.

SC 1730403

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1991

© Crown Copyright: HES

Langloch 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.

SC 1730473

Langloch 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.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

22/2/1996

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Langloch Knowe, NT03SW 55, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Langloch Knowe, NT03SW 55, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

c. 1958

© Crown Copyright: HES (Ordnance Survey Archaeology Division)

Oblique aerial view.

SC 573018

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1991

© Crown Copyright: HES

Oblique aerial view.

SC 1730395

Oblique aerial view.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

1991

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Cow Castle, oblique aerial view, taken from the WSW, centred on a fort and settlement site, with Nisbet settlement site and cultivation terraces to the top of the photograph.

SC 1730470

Cow Castle, oblique aerial view, taken from the WSW, centred on a fort and settlement site, with Nisbet settlement site and cultivation terraces to the top of the photograph.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

22/2/1996

© Crown Copyright: HES

Langloch Knowe, oblique aerial view, taken from the W, centred on cultivation terraces and a fort.

SC 1730472

Langloch Knowe, oblique aerial view, taken from the W, centred on cultivation terraces and a fort.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

22/2/1996

© Crown Copyright: HES

Scanned image of an oblique aerial view, taken from the WSW, centred on a fort and settlement site, with Nisbet settlement site and cultivation terraces to the top of the photograph.

Oblique aerial view.

Scanned image of an oblique aerial view.

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.

Oblique aerial view.

Oblique aerial view.

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 55, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

Oblique aerial view.

Langloch 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.

Langloch Knowe, NT03SW 55, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

Oblique aerial view.

Oblique aerial view.

Cow Castle, oblique aerial view, taken from the WSW, centred on a fort and settlement site, with Nisbet settlement site and cultivation terraces to the top of the photograph.

Langloch Knowe, oblique aerial view, taken from the W, centred on cultivation terraces and a fort.

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Administrative Areas

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

Archaeology Notes

NT03SW 55 0442 3307.

(NT 044 330) Fragments of three cultivation terraces can be seen on the S side of the Kilbucho-Culter track due N of the fort on Langloch Knowe (NT03SW 16).

Information from RCAHMS typescript, visited 1965.

NT 0442 3307: Only one probable cultivation terrace was noted during investigation.

Visited by OS(DWR) 18 July 1972.

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