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Currievale
City of Edinburgh, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3697
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3697 (3697)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Historic county
- Midlothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Currie
- National Grid reference
- NT 1684 6822
- Latitude
- 55.89993
- Longitude
- -3.33154
- Altitude
- 115 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1992)
Identifiers
- HER
- City of Edinburgh
- National record
- record NT 16 NE 59; monument 88983
- Wikidata
- Q31117921
Sources