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Stobshiel
East Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3780
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3780 (3780)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Humbie
- National Grid reference
- NT 4979 6380
- Latitude
- 55.86479
- Longitude
- -2.80383
- Altitude
- 190 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- 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
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.24 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west); Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1773); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1853); Earthwork Survey (1913); Other (1923); Other (1954); Other (1969); Other (1975)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 754
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL403
- National record
- record NT 46 SE 1; monument 54767
- Wikidata
- Q31096552
Sources
References
- Feachem, R W (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Laing, L R (1975) Settlement types in post-Roman Scotland. Brit Archaeol Rep, BAR British Ser 13. Oxford
- RCAHMS (1924) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Eighth report with Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in the County of East Lothian. HMSO: Edinburgh