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Turnhouse Hill
Midlothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3711
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3711 (3711)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Midlothian
- Historic county
- Midlothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Glencorse
- National Grid reference
- NT 2163 6218
- Latitude
- 55.84648
- Longitude
- -3.25321
- Altitude
- 374 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Footprint
- 0.57 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop 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
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1852); Earthwork Survey (1913); Other (1935); Other (1955); Other (1970); Other (1975); Earthwork Survey (1982)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1173
- HER
- Midlothian per East Lothian Council MEL8213
- National record
- record NT 26 SW 7; monument 51913
- Wikidata
- Q31096206
Sources
References
- Feachem, R W (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