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Castle Dykes, Bilsdean
East Lothian, Scotland · Atlas SC0487
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0487 (487)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Oldhamstocks
- National Grid reference
- NT 7660 7262
- Latitude
- 55.94609
- Longitude
- -2.37624
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Footprint
- 1.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- AD 50–400 and undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1755); Other (1853); Other (1893); Other (1913); Other (1966)
Identifiers
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL1819
- National record
- record NT 77 SE 3; monument 58870
- Wikidata
- Q31096432
Sources
References
- Hogg, A H A (1956) 'Roman fragments from Castle Dykes near Cockburnspath and from St Abb's Head', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 79, 172-3.
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/; Haddingtonshire No.16
- RCAHMS (1924) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Eighth report with inventory of monuments and constructions in the county of East Lothian, Edinburgh
- Robertson, A S (1970) 'Roman finds from non-Roman sites in Scotland', Britannia 1.