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Hillend
Midlothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3706
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3706 (3706)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Midlothian
- Historic county
- Midlothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lasswade
- National Grid reference
- NT 2452 6620
- Latitude
- 55.88305
- Longitude
- -3.20818
- Altitude
- 327 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.32 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1928); Earthwork Survey (1956); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1970); Other (1975); Other (1977); Other (1999)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4067
- HER
- Midlothian per East Lothian Council MEL8094
- National record
- record NT 26 NW 20; monument 51763
- Wikidata
- Q31096117
Sources
References
- Hunter, F. (1999) 'Hillend (Lasswade parish), coarse stone tool'. Disc Exc Scot (1999), 62
- 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