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Broxmouth
East Lothian, Scotland · Atlas SC0485
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0485 (485)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dunbar
- National Grid reference
- NT 7011 7738
- Latitude
- 55.98857
- Longitude
- -2.48066
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 4, NW 4
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 1.15 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.38 ha, 1.05 ha, 1.15 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, vitrification, and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Passage-way/Corridor (South west); Blocked (West); Passage-way/Corridor (West); Oblique (South west); In-turned (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC, 400 BC–AD 50, and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, roundhouses, and roads or tracks
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, human bones, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1955); Excavation (1977); Excavation (1978)
Identifiers
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL1769
- National record
- record NT 77 NW 16; monument 58800
- Wikidata
- Q31096429
Sources
References
- Armit, I & McKenzie, J 2013 An inherited Place: Broxmouth Hillfort and the South-East Scottish Iron Age. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland: Edinburgh.
- Horn, J. Forthcoming. The dating of hillforts in Britain and Ireland. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh.