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Edinburgh Castle
City of Edinburgh, Scotland · Atlas SC3713
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3713 (3713)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Historic county
- Midlothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Edinburgh
- National Grid reference
- NT 2518 7346
- Latitude
- 55.94840
- Longitude
- -3.19965
- Altitude
- 131 m
Form and condition
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Footprint
- 2.4 ha
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC, AD 50–400, and AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual, C14, and Other
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- Excavation (1988); Excavation (1989); Excavation (1990); Excavation (1991); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 90130
- HER
- City of Edinburgh
- National record
- record NT 27 SE 1.32; monument 74095
- Wikidata
- Q31118002
Sources
References
- Alcock, L (1981) 'Early historic fortifications in Scotland'. 150-80 (bibliography 182-201) in Guilbert, G (1981) Hill-Fort Studies: Essays for A. H. A. Hogg. Leicester University Press: Leicester
- Driscoll and Yeoman, S T and P A (1997) Excavations within Edinburgh Castle in 1988-91. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Monograph No.12: Edinburgh 26-70
- RCAHMS (1951) The Royal Commission on the Ancient Monuments of Scotland. An inventory of the ancient and historical monuments of the city of Edinburgh with the thirteenth report of the Commission. HMSO: Edinburgh
- Yeoman, P (1988) 'Edinburgh Castle (Edinburgh parish), foundations, industrial activity, Roman and native pottery, comb'. Disc Exc Scot (1988), 18-19
- Yeoman, P (1989) 'Edinburgh Castle (Edinburgh parish)'. Disc Exc Scot (1989), 50-1
- Yeoman, P A (1990) 'Edinburgh Castle: Iron Age fort to garrison fortress'. Fortress 4 (1990), 22-6
- Yeoman and Driscoll, P A and S T (1992) 'Edinburgh Castle'. Curr Archaeol 11, 11, 1992, October