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Latitude: 55.5897 / 55°35'22"N
Longitude: -3.5232 / 3°31'23"W
OS Eastings: 304098
OS Northings: 633944
OS Grid: NT040339
Mapcode National: GBR 33VT.12
Mapcode Global: WH5T1.VRHR
Entry Name: Shaw Hill,cultivation terraces 450m NE of Coulter Shaw
Scheduled Date: 24 March 1988
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4503
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: cultivation terraces
Location: Culter
County: South Lanarkshire
Electoral Ward: Clydesdale East
Traditional County: Lanarkshire
The monument consists of a series of cultivation terraces, produced during early agricultural activity. The terraces, which lie on the SE-facing slope of Shaw Hill, are from 2m to 6m broad and each is up to 1m high. The area to be scheduled is a maximum of 400m long along the slope (from SW to NE) and 100m broad (from NW to SE).
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance for three distinct reasons. It is a very fine field monument, being a typical and well-preserved set of cultivation terraces which underlie a later agricultural system indicated by narrow rig cultivation. Secondly, this superimposition of agricultural systems allows a rare opportunity to consider the relative dating of agricultural systems. Thirdly, there is, enclosed within the area proposed for scheduling, a waterlogged area which should preserve evidence for the agricultural practices associated with the creation of the two phases of field evidence.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS record the site as NT 03 SW 13.
Reference:
Graham A 1939, 'Cultivation terraces in south-eastern Scotland', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 314, Vol. 73.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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