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Woodhouselee Hill
Midlothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3707
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3707 (3707)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Midlothian
- Historic county
- Midlothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Glencorse
- National Grid reference
- NT 2333 6502
- Latitude
- 55.87235
- Longitude
- -3.22673
- Altitude
- 382 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 2, SE 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.28 ha
- Footprint
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- palisade
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1981); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- HER
- Midlothian per East Lothian Council MEL8096
- National record
- record NT 26 NW 31; monument 51775
- Wikidata
- Q31096065
Sources