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Cockleroy
West Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1845
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1845 (1845)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- West Lothian
- Historic county
- West Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Linlithgow
- National Grid reference
- NS 9894 7438
- Latitude
- 55.95183
- Longitude
- -3.62001
- Altitude
- 275 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.54 ha
- Footprint
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1854); Earthwork Survey (1926); Other (1952); Other (1963); Other (1974); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2378
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 17919
- National record
- record NS 97 SE 9; monument 48000
- Wikidata
- Q31095812
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