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Salisbury Crags, Edinburgh
City of Edinburgh, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3717
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3717 (3717)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Historic county
- Midlothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Edinburgh
- National Grid reference
- NT 2700 7326
- Latitude
- 55.94687
- Longitude
- -3.17031
- Altitude
- 174 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 9.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- parkland and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1947); Earthwork Survey (1961); Other (1998); Other (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 13032
- HER
- City of Edinburgh
- National record
- record NT 27 SE 38; monument 52425
- Wikidata
- Q31118011
Sources
References
- 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
- 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