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Dechmont Law
West Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3687
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3687 (3687)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- West Lothian
- Historic county
- West Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Livingston
- National Grid reference
- NT 0338 6982
- Latitude
- 55.91179
- Longitude
- -3.54730
- Altitude
- 217 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.07 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1954); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1972); Other (1974)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 17997
- National record
- record NT 06 NW 6; monument 49082
- Wikidata
- Q31095759
Sources