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The Chesters
East Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3860
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3860 (3860)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Bolton
- National Grid reference
- NT 5117 6872
- Latitude
- 55.90914
- Longitude
- -2.78267
- Altitude
- 120 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 2.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1773); Other (1853); Other (1892); Other (1913); Other (1954); Other (1965); Other (1975)
Identifiers
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL763
- National record
- record NT 56 NW 7; monument 56162
- Wikidata
- Q31096869
Sources
References
- 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