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Riggonhead
East Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3819
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3819 (3819)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tranent
- National Grid reference
- NT 4147 7422
- Latitude
- 55.95749
- Longitude
- -2.93887
- Altitude
- 45 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 3, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.25 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1977)
Identifiers
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL570
- National record
- record NT 47 SW 17; monument 54993
- Wikidata
- Q31096485
Sources