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Park Burn
East Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3849
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3849 (3849)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Garvald And Bara
- National Grid reference
- NT 5710 6520
- Latitude
- 55.87808
- Longitude
- -2.68726
- Altitude
- 297 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.52 ha
- Footprint
- 0.98 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope and spur
- Aspect
- northeast
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1773); Other (1853); Other (1892); Other (1913); Earthwork Survey (1954); Other (1965); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5795
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL705
- National record
- record NT 56 NE 5; monument 56104
- Wikidata
- Q31096615
Sources
References
- Feachem, R W (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- 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