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Maiden Castle
Midlothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3708
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3708 (3708)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Midlothian
- Historic county
- Midlothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lasswade
- National Grid reference
- NT 2867 6440
- Latitude
- 55.86752
- Longitude
- -3.14138
- Altitude
- 90 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.25 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1843); Other (1927); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1954); Earthwork Survey (1956); Other (1983); Geophysical Survey (2006); Geophysical Survey (2007)
Identifiers
- HER
- Midlothian per East Lothian Council MEL8107
- National record
- record NT 26 SE 17; monument 51806
- Wikidata
- Q31096069
Sources
References
- Hawkins, I (2006a) Geophysical Survey of Maiden Castle, Polton, Lasswade, Midlothian. Unpublished report
- Hawkins, I (2006b) 'Maiden Castle, Midlothian (Lasswade parish), geophysical survey'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 7, 2006, 105-6, fig 30
- Hawkins, I (2007) 'Maiden Castle, Midlothian (Lasswade parish), ground resistance survey'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 8 (2007), 129-30, fig
- NSA (1834-1845) The new statistical account of Scotland by the ministers of the respective parishes under the superintendence of a committee of the society for the benefit of the sons and daughters of the clergy.
- 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