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Craigton Hill
West Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3688
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3688 (3688)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- West Lothian
- Historic county
- West Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Abercorn
- National Grid reference
- NT 0761 7691
- Latitude
- 55.97630
- Longitude
- -3.48208
- Altitude
- 108 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 3, SW 2, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.35 ha
- Footprint
- 0.83 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1854); Other (1926); Other (1974)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 18088
- National record
- record NT 07 NE 8; monument 49174
- Wikidata
- Q31095767
Sources
References
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/
- 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