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The Castles
East Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3865
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3865 (3865)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Yester
- National Grid reference
- NT 5317 6425
- Latitude
- 55.86918
- Longitude
- -2.74991
- Altitude
- 243 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 4, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.36 ha
- Footprint
- 1.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1802); Earthwork Survey (1827); Other (1853); Other (1892); Earthwork Survey (1913); Other (1923); Other (1954); Other (1968); Other (1969); Other (1975)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 746
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL801
- National record
- record NT 56 SW 3; monument 56200
- Wikidata
- Q31097027
Sources
References
- Feachem, R W (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Hay, W W (1831) 'Description of two ancient camps on the estate of Hay Newton of Newton, esquire, East Lothian'. Archaeol Scot 3 (1831), 301-5
- 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