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Elphinstone
East Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3769
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3769 (3769)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tranent
- National Grid reference
- NT 3957 6993
- Latitude
- 55.91876
- Longitude
- -2.96840
- Altitude
- 130 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 1, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.55 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- east
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1986); Other (1995); Other (2014)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 13365
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL16
- National record
- record NT 36 NE 68; monument 53397
- Wikidata
- Q31096526
Sources