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Bowden Hill
West Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1839
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1839 (1839)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- West Lothian
- Historic county
- West Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Torphichen
- National Grid reference
- NS 9775 7440
- Latitude
- 55.95176
- Longitude
- -3.63906
- Altitude
- 220 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 2.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1773); Other (1818); Other (1860); Other (1926); Other (1952); Other (1963); Other (1974); Other (1995); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2283
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 17832
- National record
- record NS 97 SE 1; monument 47912
- Wikidata
- Q31095789
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- RCAHMS (1929) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Tenth report with inventory of monuments and constructions in the counties of Midlothian and West Lothian. HMSO: Edinburgh