Dechmont, a hill-summit on the SW border of Cambuslang parish, Lanarkshire, 5½ miles SSE of Glasgow. The highest point of the hill-range that terminates north-westward in Carmunnock, it has an altitude of 602 feet above sea-level, and commands a magnificent view, whose beauties form the theme of a descriptive poem by John Struthers. The Beltane fires long blazed from its summit; and on its slopes were formerly many Caledonian cairns and suchlike structures, now almost totally obliterated.
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