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Costerton
East Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3784
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3784 (3784)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Humbie
- National Grid reference
- NT 4452 6321
- Latitude
- 55.85898
- Longitude
- -2.88778
- Altitude
- 167 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 3, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.8 ha
- Footprint
- 1.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (South west); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1977); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5736
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL435
- National record
- record NT 46 SW 39; monument 54827
- Wikidata
- Q31096955
Sources