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The Hopes
East Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3862
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3862 (3862)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Garvald And Bara
- National Grid reference
- NT 5703 6354
- Latitude
- 55.86316
- Longitude
- -2.68808
- Altitude
- 409 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 6
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 5, SE 0, SW 6, NW 5
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 2 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.38 ha, 0.5 ha, 1.2 ha, 2 ha
- Footprint
- 2.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, palisade, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Oblique (North east); Hollow Way (North east); Simple Gap (North west); In-turned (North west); Hollow Way (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1773); Other (1853); Other (1892); Earthwork Survey (1921); Other (1936); Other (1954); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 751
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL766
- National record
- record NT 56 SE 1; monument 56165
- Wikidata
- Q31096651
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