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Cakemuir Burn
Midlothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3768
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3768 (3768)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Midlothian
- Historic county
- Midlothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Crichton
- National Grid reference
- NT 4263 6084
- Latitude
- 55.83740
- Longitude
- -2.91759
- Altitude
- 215 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.24 ha
- Footprint
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1976); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 6262
- HER
- Midlothian per East Lothian Council MEL8590
- National record
- record NT 46 SW 32; monument 54820
- Wikidata
- Q31096169
Sources