Ellershie Hill
Unenclosed Platform Settlement (Prehistoric)
Site Name Ellershie Hill
Classification Unenclosed Platform Settlement (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 47293
Site Number NS91NE 14
NGR NS 9555 1930
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/47293
- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish Crawford
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Clydesdale
- Former County Lanarkshire
Field Visit (July 1975)
NS91NE 14 956 192.
NS 956 192: Unenclosed Platform Settlement, Ellershie Hill. Near the foot of the SE slopes of Ellershie Hill there are five platforms ranged along the 300 m contour immediately below, and to the S of, the eastern part of the field system described on NS91NE 13. The platforms measure between 8.5m and 12.2m across.
RCAHMS 1978, visited July 1975
Field Visit (11 June 1984)
There are another two large platforms, both of them about 15m in diameter, 170m to the NW of platform 1; the NE platform in enclosed by a low stony bank, but this may be no more than the remains of a sheep stell. The platforms are situated at the foot of a large positive lynchet, but the relationship between the two is uncertain.
Surveyed at 1:10,000
Visited by RCAHMS (SPH) 11 June 1984.