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Dunsapie
City of Edinburgh, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3716
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3716 (3716)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Historic county
- Midlothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Edinburgh
- National Grid reference
- NT 2817 7316
- Latitude
- 55.94619
- Longitude
- -3.15167
- Altitude
- 142 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.65 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- parkland and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- metal and metalworking
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1922); Other (1947); Earthwork Survey (1961); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1966); Other (1975); Other (1976); Excavation (1996); Other (1998)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 13032
- HER
- City of Edinburgh
- National record
- record NT 27 SE 49; monument 52510
- Wikidata
- Q31118007
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
- RCAHMS. (1999) The Royal Commission on the Ancient Monuments of Scotland. Holyrood Park: the archaeology of the Royal Park, RCAHMS Broadsheet 6. RCAHMS: Edinburgh
- Stevenson, R B K (1947) 'Farms and fortifications in the King's Park, Edinburgh'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 81 (1946-7), 158-70