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Crookedstane is a platform settlement situated 200 metres east of its namesake stone in Lanarkshire, Scotland. The site comprises a levelled occupation area carved into the hillside, a characteristic settlement form of late prehistoric and early medieval communities in the Scottish uplands. Such platform settlements represent deliberate earthworks where inhabitants created level ground for domestic structures, often arranged in terraces along valley slopes where they could access water and survey surrounding land.
The monument lies upon bedrock formed during the Ashgill geological period, comprising wacke stone from the Shinnel and Glenlee Formations. This underlying geology would have influenced both the settlement's construction and the resources available to its inhabitants. The wacke outcrops in the surrounding landscape provided workable stone for building and tool-making, materials essential to prehistoric and early medieval settlement in upland areas.
Crookedstane platform settlement is protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4647. The site's survival and scheduling reflect its importance as archaeological evidence for how communities organised settlement, land-use and daily life in the Scottish interior during periods when upland zones were more actively inhabited than in later centuries.
Crookedstane,platform settlement 200m E of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4647. View the official record →
Crookedstane is a platform settlement situated 200 metres east of its namesake stone in Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4647.
Crookedstane,platform settlement 200m E of is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM4647.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Crooked Stone, standing stone 160m N of Crookedstane (0.3 km), Bodsberry Hill to Little Clyde,Roman road (1.3 km), Air Cleuch,cairns 1300m S of Glengeith (1.6 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Crookedstane,platform settlement 200m E of's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Crookedstane,platform settlement 200m E of stands on Shinnel Formation And Glenlee Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Ashgill. The rock here is wacke.