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Sheriffside
East Lothian, Scotland · Atlas SC3852
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3852 (3852)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Yester
- National Grid reference
- NT 5550 6773
- Latitude
- 55.90074
- Longitude
- -2.71317
- Altitude
- 198 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.95 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hillslope
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC, 400 BC–AD 50, and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and quarry hollows
- Finds
- pottery
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1981); Excavation (2011); Geophysical Survey (2011); Excavation (2012); Geophysical Survey (2012); Excavation (2014)
Identifiers
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL700
- National record
- record NT 56 NE 43; monument 56099
- Wikidata
- Q31096849
Sources
References
- Connolly, D, Cook, M, Dinning, S, Druce, D and Rocks-Macqueen, D (2011) Sheriffside, Gifford, East Lothian
- Data Structure Report. 2. Available http://www.rampartscotland.co.uk/index.php/publications/
- Cook, M, Connolly, D and Druce, D (2012) Sheriffside, Gifford, East Lothian Season 2: Data Structure Report. Available http://www.rampartscotland.co.uk/index.php/publications/
- Cook, M, Connolly, D (2015) Sheriffside, Gifford, East Lothian Season 3: Data Structure Report. Available http://www.rampartscotland.co.uk/index.php/publications/