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Borthwick Mains
Midlothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3757
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3757 (3757)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Midlothian
- Historic county
- Midlothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Borthwick
- National Grid reference
- NT 3668 6043
- Latitude
- 55.83297
- Longitude
- -3.01248
- Altitude
- 213 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Cropmark and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1979); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 6260
- HER
- Midlothian per East Lothian Council MEL8493
- National record
- record NT 36 SE 59; monument 53592
- Wikidata
- Q31096239
Sources