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Samson's Ribs, Arthur's Seat
City of Edinburgh, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3720
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3720 (3720)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Historic county
- Midlothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Edinburgh
- National Grid reference
- NT 2745 7249
- Latitude
- 55.94002
- Longitude
- -3.16305
- Altitude
- 125 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.43 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- parkland and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1969); Other (1975); Other (1998)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 13032
- HER
- City of Edinburgh
- National record
- record NT 27 SE 118; monument 52121
- Wikidata
- Q31118015
Sources
References
- Stevenson, R B K (1973) 'A Roman intaglio ring from a native fort on Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 102 (1969-70), 293-4
- RCAHMS. (1999) The Royal Commission on the Ancient Monuments of Scotland. Holyrood Park: the archaeology of the Royal Park, RCAHMS Broadsheet 6. RCAHMS: Edinburgh