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Peace Knowe
West Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3690
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3690 (3690)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- West Lothian
- Historic county
- West Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Linlithgow
- National Grid reference
- NT 0306 7407
- Latitude
- 55.94989
- Longitude
- -3.55394
- Altitude
- 180 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 3, SW 2, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.13 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1854); Earthwork Survey (1924); Other (1935); Other (1952); Other (1974)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1901
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 18206
- National record
- record NT 07 SW 7; monument 49312
- Wikidata
- Q31095823
Sources
References
- 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