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Hare Law
East Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3867
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3867 (3867)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Yester
- National Grid reference
- NT 5465 6309
- Latitude
- 55.85889
- Longitude
- -2.72606
- Altitude
- 365 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 3, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.15 ha
- Footprint
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank, stone wall, and vitrification
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Passage-way/Corridor (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1773); Other (1822); Other (1853); Other (1892); Earthwork Survey (1913); Other (1923); Other (1954); Other (1961); Other (1965); Other (1975)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 750
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL804
- National record
- record NT 56 SW 6; monument 56203
- Wikidata
- Q31096654
Sources
References
- Feachem, R W (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Laing, L R (1975) Settlement types in post-Roman Scotland. Brit Archaeol Rep, BAR British Ser 13. Oxford
- 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