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Kaimes Hill
City of Edinburgh, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3699
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3699 (3699)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Historic county
- Midlothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ratho
- National Grid reference
- NT 1315 6655
- Latitude
- 55.88428
- Longitude
- -3.39000
- Altitude
- 245 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 8
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 8, SE 3, SW 4, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 2.3 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.85 ha, 2.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall, timber-laced wall, vitrification, and other burning
- Also recorded
- chevaux de frise and multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (North east); Over-lapping (East); Simple Gap (South); Simple Gap (East); In-turned (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
- Water source
- well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- A - High
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1839); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1852); Excavation (1872); Earthwork Survey (1893); Other (1924); Earthwork Survey (1927); Excavation (1940); Excavation (1964); Other (1965); Excavation (1965); Excavation (1966); Exca
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1172
- HER
- City of Edinburgh
- National record
- record NT 16 NW 2; monument 50329
- Wikidata
- Q31117976
Sources
References
- Childe, V G (1941) 'The defences of Kaimes Hill Fort, Midlothian'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 75 (1940-1), 43-54
- Coles, F R (1896) 'Notes on the fortified site on Kaimes Hill'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 30 (1895-6), 269-74
- Feachem, R W (1963) Guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 137)
- Horn, J. Forthcoming. The dating of hillforts in Britain and Ireland. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh.
- IAM (1969) Inspectorate of Ancient Monuments. 'Kaimes Hill, Midlothian'. Disc Exc Scot (1969), 54
- MoPBW (1964) Ministry of Public Buildings and Works. 'Kaimes Hill, Midlothian'. Disc Exc Scot (1964), 57
- MoPBW (1967) Ministry of Public Buildings and Works. 'Kaimes Hill, Midlothian'. Disc Exc Scot (1967), 56
- MoPBW (1968) Ministry of Public Buildings and Works. 'Archaeological Excavations 1968'. Archaeol Excav (1968), 31
- Morris, R W B (1981) The prehistoric rock art of southern Scotland (except Argyll and Galloway). Brit Archaeol Rep, BAR British Ser 86. Oxford
- 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
- DoE (1970) Department of the Environment. 'Kaimes, Midlothian'. Disc Exc Scot (1970), 58
- Simpson, D D A (1969) 'Excavations at Kaimes Hillfort, Midlothian, 1964-1968'. Glasgow Archaeol J 1 (1969), 7-28
- Simpson, D D A (1971) Kaimes Hill'. Archaeol Excav (1971), 39
- Simpson, D D A (1972) Kaimes Hill'. Archaeol Excav (1972), 15