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Latitude: 55.4194 / 55°25'9"N
Longitude: -3.6318 / 3°37'54"W
OS Eastings: 296810
OS Northings: 615152
OS Grid: NS968151
Mapcode National: GBR 352S.J3
Mapcode Global: WH5TZ.51VR
Entry Name: Crookedstane,platform settlement 200m E of
Scheduled Date: 6 March 1989
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4647
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 prehistoric settlement consisting of twelve scooped platforms, which represent the sites of houses, lying in a group just to the E of Crookedstane farm. The area to be scheduled is oval, elongated N-S, measuring 200m NS and 110m EW, the centre of the oval being 200m E of the Ordnance Survey benchmark on the farm buildings.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a well-preserved example of a later prehistoric patform settlement, lying toward the larger end of the scale in terms of numbers of house sites.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the site as NS91NE 16.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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