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Wester Craiglockhart Hill
City of Edinburgh, Scotland · Atlas SC3721
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3721 (3721)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Historic county
- Midlothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Edinburgh
- National Grid reference
- NT 2282 7006
- Latitude
- 55.91746
- Longitude
- -3.23646
- Altitude
- 175 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Footprint
- 0.12 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- AD 50–400 and undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1916); Earthwork Survey (1970); Excavation (1970); Excavation (1971); Other (1972); Other (1974); Other (2001)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3193
- HER
- City of Edinburgh
- National record
- record NT 27 SW 34; monument 52658
- Wikidata
- Q31118024
Sources
References
- Macgregor, M (1976) Early Celtic art in north Britain: a study of decorative metalwork from the third century B.C. to the third century A.D. (2v). Leicester University Press: Leicester
- Maxwell, G S (1970) 'Wester Craiglockhart Hill, fort'. Disc Exc Scot (1970), 32
- Maxwell, G S (1971) 'Edinburgh, Wester Craiglockhart Hill, fort'. Disc Exc Scot (1971, 28-9
- Proc Soc Antiq Scot (1917) 'Donations to and purchases for the Museum and Library'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 51 (1916-17), 10, fig 1
- Proc Soc Antiq Scot (1918) 'Donations to and purchases for the Museum and Library'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 52 (1917-18), 150, 172
- 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