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Woolmet
Midlothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3758
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3758 (3758)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Midlothian
- Historic county
- Midlothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Newton
- National Grid reference
- NT 3057 7038
- Latitude
- 55.92155
- Longitude
- -3.11249
- Altitude
- 90 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.1 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1968); Excavation (2007)
Identifiers
- HER
- Midlothian per East Lothian Council MEL8547
- National record
- record NT 37 SW 57; monument 53894
- Wikidata
- Q31096086
Sources
References
- Johnson, M (2007) 'Land to the North of Edmonstone, the Wisp, Midlothian (Newton parish), desk-based assessment and evaluation'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 8 (2007), 131