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West Mains
East Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3770
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3770 (3770)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tranent
- National Grid reference
- NT 3753 7075
- Latitude
- 55.92582
- Longitude
- -3.00119
- Altitude
- 122 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.77 ha, 2 ha
- Footprint
- 2.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (West); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- west and level
- Land use
- arable and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1939); Other (1975); Other (1977)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4004
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL56
- National record
- record NT 37 SE 26; monument 53667
- Wikidata
- Q31096532
Sources