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Queen Mary's Mount
East Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3725
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3725 (3725)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- Midlothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Inveresk
- National Grid reference
- NT 3738 6956
- Latitude
- 55.91510
- Longitude
- -3.00330
- Altitude
- 160 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 5
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 5, SW 5, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 5
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.78 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South); Other Forms (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1893); Other (1975); Other (1995); Other (2010)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 6204
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL15
- National record
- record NT 36 NE 6; monument 53384
- Wikidata
- Q31096524
Sources