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Fordel Mains
Midlothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3726
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3726 (3726)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Midlothian
- Historic county
- Midlothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Newbattle
- National Grid reference
- NT 3730 6638
- Latitude
- 55.88654
- Longitude
- -3.00382
- Altitude
- 194 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 1.4 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.87 ha, 1.4 ha
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1962); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 6268
- HER
- Midlothian per East Lothian Council MEL8278
- National record
- record NT 36 NE 21; monument 53342
- Wikidata
- Q31096129
Sources