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Braidwood
Midlothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3695
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3695 (3695)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Midlothian
- Historic county
- Midlothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Penicuik
- National Grid reference
- NT 1928 5963
- Latitude
- 55.82319
- Longitude
- -3.28997
- Altitude
- 329 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.33 ha
- Footprint
- 0.66 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, palisade, and counterscarp bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, palisade, and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Passage-way/Corridor (South west); Simple Gap (North west)
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 and quarry hollows
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- Excavation (1790); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1852); Earthwork Survey (1913); Other (1935); Excavation (1940); Excavation (1947); Excavation (1948); Earthwork Survey (1948); Excavation (1951); Excavation (1952); Excavation (1953); Earthwork Survey (195
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1163
- HER
- Midlothian per East Lothian Council MEL7999
- National record
- record NT 15 NE 14; monument 50152
- Wikidata
- Q31096181
Sources
References
- Brown, I (1968) 'Silverburn, Braidwood, Iron Age fort'. Disc Exc Scot (1968), 26
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (pp 135-6)
- Piggott, C M (1953) 'Braidwood Fort'. Disc Exc Scot (1953), 13
- Piggott, S (1958) 'Excavations at Braidwood Fort, Midlothian and Craig's Quarry, Dirleton, East Lothian'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 91 (1957-8), 61-77
- 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
- Stevenson, R B K (1949) 'Braidwood Fort, Midlothian: the exploration of two huts'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 83 (1948-9), 1-11
- Stevenson, R B K (1948) 'Braidwood and Rullion Green, Midlothian'. Disc Exc Scot (1948), 8-9
- Wilson, D (1851) The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland. Sutherland and Knox: Edinburgh