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Easter Pinkerton
East Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC0489
Location
- Atlas number
- SC0489 (489)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dunbar
- National Grid reference
- NT 7077 7503
- Latitude
- 55.96742
- Longitude
- -2.46971
- Altitude
- 105 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Footprint
- 1.1 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Hornwork (East); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1954); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1966); Other (1971); Other (1994)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5895
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL1815
- National record
- record NT 77 NW 9; monument 58846
- Wikidata
- Q31096521
Sources