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No. 280 -- MISCELLANEOUS EARTHWORKS AND ENCLOSURES -- No. 284

280 Earthwork, Cairncockle. This earthwork is
situated at the S end of a broad ridge about 600 m E
of Overwood, on the W side of the M 74 motorway.
The greater part of the site has been destroyed by the
construction of the motorway, and only a segment of
the W side, including the entrance, now survives. In
1959, before the motorway was built, the work was
described and planned by officers of the Ordnance
Survey. ¹ Circular in shape, it measured about 29 m in
diameter within a single ditch and slight counterscarp
bank. The surviving segment of the ditch measures
about 9 m in width and about 0.3 m in depth and is
crossed by an entrance-causeway, some 8 m in width,
on the NW side.

779456 -- NS 74 NE -- August 1974

281 Earthwork, Camp Knowe, Calderside (Site).
The rounded natural knoll known as Camp Knowe,
situated to the NE of the farm of Calderside, was
formerly enclosed, at least in part, by a ditch, ² but this
has been completely filled in by ploughing.

665547 -- NS 65 SE -- August 1974

282 Enclosure, Candybank 1. On a slight knoll at
the edge of an arable field 850 m SSW of Candybank
farm there is a circular enclosure (Fig. 90) measuring
about 22 m in diameter within a single bank composed
of earth and stones, Although the site faces rising ground
to the N, it is protected on the SW by a steep scarp

[Drawing inserted]
Fig. 90. Enclosure, Candybank 1 (No. 282)

dropping some 15 m to an unnamed tributary of the
Candy Burn. An old field-bank and a modern fence
bounding the SW side of the field roughly bisect the
site, and the portion of the bank that lies within the field
has been all but levelled by cultivation. To the SW of
the fence, however, the bank has an average thickness
of 5 m at the base and a maximum height of 0.6 m. A
single earthfast stone on the SW suggests the presence
of an outer revetment. There is no indication of an
entrance but it presumably lay somewhere in the E arc.
Traces of rig-and-furrow cultivation are visible to the
W of the enclosure, between the fence and the scarp.

064407 -- NT 04 SE -- February 1975

283 Enclosure, Candybank 2 (Site). Air photographs
(CUCAP nos. ATM 10-11) reveal the crop-mark of a
ditched enclosure (Pl. 15B) situated on level ground on
the W flank of Castle Hill, Candybank, within 350 m of
the fort No. 222. Sub-rectangular in shape, the enclosure
measures about 110 m by 90 m over what appears to
have been a substantial ditch. There is no indication
of an entrance and no remains are visible on the ground.

061411 -- NT 04 SE -- February 1975

284 Earthwork, Castlehill Strip, Newton. On the
summit of a broad ridge projecting NW from Dungavel
Hill, 800 m WNW of Newton farmhouse, there is an
earthwork (Fig. 91) which measures about 61 m in

[Drawing inserted]
Fig. 91. Earthwork, Castlehill Strip, Newton. (No. 284)

diameter within double banks and a medial ditch. The
inner bank has been largely destroyed to build a planta-
tion-bank approximately on the same line. The outer

1 OS Record Card NS 74 NE 10.
2 NSA, vi (Lanark), 321.

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