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Yester
East Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3856
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3856 (3856)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Yester
- National Grid reference
- NT 5556 6676
- Latitude
- 55.89199
- Longitude
- -2.71213
- Altitude
- 167 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 2, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.25 ha
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- parkland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1989); Other (1994)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5957
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL1947
- National record
- record NT 56 NE 50; monument 71509
- Wikidata
- Q31096634
Sources