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Seton Mains
East Lothian, Scotland · Atlas SC3788
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3788 (3788)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tranent
- National Grid reference
- NT 4250 7536
- Latitude
- 55.96791
- Longitude
- -2.92268
- Altitude
- 25 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- parkland, arable, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1976); Earthwork Survey (1994); Other (1995); Other (2011)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 6191
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL505
- National record
- record NT 47 NW 19; monument 54928
- Wikidata
- Q31096588
Sources
References
- Alexander, D (1995) 'Seton mains (Tranent parish), later prehistoric enclosure'. Disc Exc Scot (1995), 51-52
- CFA (1994j) 'Seton Mains (Tranent parish): later prehistoric enclosure'. Disc Exc Scot (1994), 47
- Dunbar, L (2011) «Stepping Stones, Seton Mains, Longniddry, East Lothian (Tranent parish), evaluation'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 12 (2011), 69