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Latitude: 55.399 / 55°23'56"N
Longitude: -3.6643 / 3°39'51"W
OS Eastings: 294695
OS Northings: 612928
OS Grid: NS946129
Mapcode National: GBR 26V0.HF
Mapcode Global: WH5TY.PK9F
Entry Name: Watermeetings,platform settlement 450m W of
Scheduled Date: 6 March 1989
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4644
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: platform settlement
Location: Crawford
County: South Lanarkshire
Electoral Ward: Clydesdale East
Traditional County: Lanarkshire
The monument consists of a group of six platforms, representing the sites of prehistoric houses, which is located on the lower SE face of the Doddin, behind a small cottage. The area to be scheduled is a rectangle 180m NE-SW by 110m NW-SE.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a good example of an uncomplicated and typical medium-sized platform settlement. Some of the platforms have lost a little definition due to ploughing at some time in the past, but the remains have not been extensively damaged. Sufficient archaeological detail is preserved for the monument to retain its potential for increasing our understanding of settlement organisation and house types of the late second and early first milennia BC.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the site as NS91SW 3.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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