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Clubbiedean
City of Edinburgh, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3696
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3696 (3696)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Historic county
- Midlothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Currie
- National Grid reference
- NT 1995 6671
- Latitude
- 55.88690
- Longitude
- -3.28137
- Altitude
- 228 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.12 ha
- Footprint
- 0.33 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, counterscarp bank, and berm
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (South east); Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1852); Other (1913); Earthwork Survey (1956); Other (1965); Other (1975); Earthwork Survey (1980); Other (1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 6635
- HER
- City of Edinburgh
- National record
- record NT 16 NE 8; monument 50316
- Wikidata
- Q31117949
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