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Arthur's Seat
City of Edinburgh, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3719
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3719 (3719)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Historic county
- Midlothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Edinburgh
- National Grid reference
- NT 2764 7282
- Latitude
- 55.94303
- Longitude
- -3.16003
- Altitude
- 251 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 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 8.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- parkland, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- human bones and lithics
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1947); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1966); Other (1975); Other (1994); Excavation (1995); Other (1998)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 13032
- HER
- City of Edinburgh
- National record
- record NT 27 SE 93; monument 52561
- Wikidata
- Q31118012
Sources
References
- Alexander, D (1995) 'Arthur's Seat (City parish of Edinburgh), fort rampart'. Disc Exc Scot (1995), 54
- Alexander, D (1997) 'Excavation on Arthur's Seat fort, Edinburgh, 1995'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 127 (1997), 595-600
- Feachem, R W (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 135)
- 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