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Witches Knowe
East Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3866
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3866 (3866)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Yester
- National Grid reference
- NT 5186 6356
- Latitude
- 55.86285
- Longitude
- -2.77072
- Altitude
- 300 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 3, SW 3, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.33 ha
- Footprint
- 0.94 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Over-lapping (South east); Oblique (South east); Hornwork (South east); Over-lapping (South west); Oblique (South west); Hornwork (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and other roundhouse evidence
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1853); Other (1892); Other (1913); Earthwork Survey (1954); Other (1975); Other (1979); Other (1993); Other (1994)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5861
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL803
- National record
- record NT 56 SW 5; monument 56202
- Wikidata
- Q31097032
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