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Latitude: 55.4525 / 55°27'9"N
Longitude: -3.7579 / 3°45'28"W
OS Eastings: 288919
OS Northings: 619034
OS Grid: NS889190
Mapcode National: GBR 256D.67
Mapcode Global: WH5TQ.76SV
Entry Name: Waterhead,platform settlement 900m N of
Scheduled Date: 11 August 1989
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4714
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: platform settlement
Location: Crawford
County: South Lanarkshire
Electoral Ward: Clydesdale East
Traditional County: Lanarkshire
The monument is a single platform scooped into the SE flank of the hillside N of Carle Gill and 100m W of the track which climbs the hillside from the public road bridge over the burn. The platform is 14.4m in diameter, and represents the site of a prehistoric house. The area to be scheduled is a square, 50m on each side, oriented NW- SE and centred on the centre of the platform, as delineated in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a good field example of an isolated platform house site which seems to have been isolated when built, rather than being part of a largely destroyed settlement. The archaeological evidence preserved may shed light on the relationship between individual and grouped platform sites, in terms of both date and function.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS - NS 81 NE 6
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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