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Dalmahoy Hill
City of Edinburgh, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3698
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3698 (3698)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Historic county
- Midlothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ratho
- National Grid reference
- NT 1355 6693
- Latitude
- 55.88776
- Longitude
- -3.38373
- Altitude
- 246 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.08 ha, 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Over-lapping (South east); Simple Gap (North west); Oblique (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1893); Earthwork Survey (1927); Earthwork Survey (1949); Earthwork Survey (1955); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1958); Other (1965); Other (1998); Other (2008)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1213
- HER
- City of Edinburgh
- National record
- record NT 16 NW 1; monument 50318
- Wikidata
- Q31117961
Sources
References
- Coles, F R (1896) 'Notes on the fortified site on Kaimes Hill'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 30 (1895-6), 269-74
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (pp 135-6)
- Naddair, K (1989) 'Dalmahoy hillfort (Ratho parish), cup mark site'. Disc Exc Scot (1989), 51
- 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) 'The nuclear fort of Dalmahoy, Midlothian, and other Dark Age capitals'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 83 (1948-9), 186-98