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Normangill Rig is a platform settlement situated east of Midlock in Lanarkshire, Scotland. The site comprises a series of artificial platforms cut into the hillside, a characteristic form of prehistoric or early medieval domestic settlement found across upland Scotland. Such settlements typically represent the remains of domestic structures whose platforms were levelled into sloping ground to create level building surfaces, often accompanied by associated field systems and stock enclosures adapted to marginal agricultural land.
The monument rests on bedrock of the Portpatrick and Glenwhargen formations, undifferentiated Caradocian wacke that would have presented considerable challenges to settlement and cultivation. This hard, fractured stone was extensively quarried and used in local building and field boundary construction. The wacke geology is typical of the Southern Uplands, giving the landscape its distinctive rugged character and limiting the depth and fertility of overlying soils.
Normangill Rig is protected as a scheduled monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4756, recognising its archaeological importance as evidence of rural settlement patterns and land use in upland Lanarkshire. The platform settlement contributes to understanding how communities adapted to and exploited this challenging terrain over successive periods of occupation.
Normangill Rig,platform settlement E of Midlock is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4756. View the official record →
Normangill Rig is a platform settlement situated east of Midlock in Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM4756.
Normangill Rig,platform settlement E of Midlock 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 SM4756.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Glengeith, settlement, bastle house and field system (4.9 km), Bodsberry Hill to Little Clyde,Roman road (4.9 km), Little Clyde,Roman camp (5.9 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Normangill Rig,platform settlement E of Midlock's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
Every location is different. Not every section appears for every place, only what the historical record actually holds turns up in a report.
Normangill Rig,platform settlement E of Midlock stands on Portpatrick Formation And Glenwhargen Formation (Undifferentiated), bedrock that formed in the Caradocian. The rock here is wacke.