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Craigie Hill
City of Edinburgh, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3700
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3700 (3700)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Historic county
- West Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dalmeny
- National Grid reference
- NT 1538 7580
- Latitude
- 55.96776
- Longitude
- -3.35726
- Altitude
- 94 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 3, NW 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (West); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1866); Excavation (1866); Earthwork Survey (1926); Other (1935); Other (1952); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1968); Other (1974)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1900
- HER
- City of Edinburgh
- National record
- record NT 17 NE 12; monument 50391
- Wikidata
- Q31117988
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- 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
- Simpson, J Y (1866) 'On ancient sculpturings of cups and concentric rings, etc.'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 6 (1864-6), Appendix 1-147