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Castle Knowe
Midlothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3712
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3712 (3712)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Midlothian
- Historic county
- Midlothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Glencorse
- National Grid reference
- NT 2299 6404
- Latitude
- 55.86341
- Longitude
- -3.23202
- Altitude
- 331 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Footprint
- 0.32 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, palisade, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
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 Map Depiction (1971); Earthwork Survey (1971); Other (1975); Earthwork Survey (1982); Other (1996); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 6447
- HER
- Midlothian per East Lothian Council MEL8174
- National record
- record NT 26 SW 21; monument 51873
- Wikidata
- Q31096209
Sources
References
- Feachem, R W (1971) 'Unfinished hill-forts'. 19-39 in Hill, D and Jesson, M (eds) The Iron Age and its hill-forts: papers presented to Sir Mortimer Wheeler on the occasion of his eightieth year. Southampton