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Longfaugh
Midlothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3767
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3767 (3767)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Midlothian
- Historic county
- Midlothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Crichton
- National Grid reference
- NT 4038 6176
- Latitude
- 55.84539
- Longitude
- -2.95371
- Altitude
- 245 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Footprint
- 1.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, parkland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1755); Other (1773); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1821); Other (1853); Other (1892); Earthwork Survey (1913); Other (1924); Other (1955); Other (1975); Other (1978)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 1174
- HER
- Midlothian per East Lothian Council MEL8571
- National record
- record NT 46 SW 10; monument 54796
- Wikidata
- Q31096161
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Macdonald, G (1918) 'Roman coins found in Scotland'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 52 (1917-18), 203-76
- 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