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East Linton
East Lothian, Scotland · Atlas SC3870
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3870 (3870)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Prestonkirk
- National Grid reference
- NT 5851 7655
- Latitude
- 55.98019
- Longitude
- -2.66639
- Altitude
- 61 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 1 ha
- Footprint
- 1.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- palisade
- Enclosing works, excavated
- palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (South west); Simple Gap (South west); Blocked (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1954); Other (1962); Other (1979); Geophysical Survey (2004); Excavation (2004)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4169
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL816
- National record
- record NT 57 NE 17; monument 56215
- Wikidata
- Q31096669
Sources
References
- Carne, Hale and Haselgrove, P, D and C (2004) 'Traprain Law Environs Project (Whitekirk & Tyninghame; Prestonkirk parishes), enclosure cropmarks'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 5 (2004), 46-7
- Haselgrove, C and Hale, D (2009) 'The evaluations at East Bearford, Foster Law and East Linton'.
- 99-115 in Haselgrove, C (2009) The Traprain Law Environs Project: Fieldwork and Excavations 2000-2004. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland: Edinburgh
- Maxwell, G S (1970) 'Early rectilinear enclosures in the Lothians'. Scot Archaeol Forum 2 (1970), 86-90 (p 89)