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Castle Law, Glencorse
Midlothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3710
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3710 (3710)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Midlothian
- Historic county
- Midlothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Glencorse
- National Grid reference
- NT 2290 6387
- Latitude
- 55.86187
- Longitude
- -3.23333
- Altitude
- 306 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.48 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.25 ha, 0.48 ha
- Footprint
- 0.95 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, counterscarp bank, and berm
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank, timber-laced wall, and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); In-turned (North east); Oblique (North east); Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (South west)
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
- other roundhouse evidence and quarry hollows
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1816); Other (1852); Earthwork Survey (1913); Other (1924); Excavation (1931); Excavation (1932); Earthwork Survey (1932); Excavation (1948); Other (1970); Other (1976); Earthwork Survey (2005); LiDAR Survey (2005); Geophysic
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 90064
- HER
- Midlothian per East Lothian Council MEL8172
- National record
- record NT 26 SW 2; monument 51871
- Wikidata
- Q31096195
Sources
References
- Childe, V G (1933) 'Excavations at Castlelaw Fort, Midlothian'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 67 (1932-3), 362-88
- Feachem, R W (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Piggott and Piggott, S and C M (1954) 'Excavations at Castle Law, Glencorse, and at Craig's Quarry, Dirleton, 1948-9'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 86 (1951-2), 191-6
- 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
- Welfare, H (1984) 'The southern souterrains'. 305-23 in Miket, R and Burgess, C, (eds) Between and beyond the Walls: essays on the prehistory and history of North Britain in honour of George Jobey. John Donald: Edinburgh