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Kingside Rig
East Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3863
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3863 (3863)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Garvald And Bara
- National Grid reference
- NT 5521 6295
- Latitude
- 55.85769
- Longitude
- -2.71710
- Altitude
- 365 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Footprint
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- 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 (1853); Other (1892); Earthwork Survey (1913); Other (1954); Other (1979); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5760
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL777
- National record
- record NT 56 SE 2; monument 56176
- Wikidata
- Q31097006
Sources