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Blackford Hill
City of Edinburgh, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3714
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3714 (3714)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Historic county
- Midlothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Edinburgh
- National Grid reference
- NT 2545 7064
- Latitude
- 55.92308
- Longitude
- -3.19455
- Altitude
- 164 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- parkland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1927); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1953); Other (1975); Other (1993); Other (1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5818
- HER
- City of Edinburgh
- National record
- record NT 27 SE 90; monument 52558
- Wikidata
- Q31118005
Sources
References
- 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