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Skid Hill
East Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3873
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3873 (3873)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Athelstaneford
- National Grid reference
- NT 5068 7643
- Latitude
- 55.97835
- Longitude
- -2.79192
- Altitude
- 186 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1913); Other (1956); Other (1975); Other (1994)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 6030
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL971
- National record
- record NT 57 NW 9; monument 56371
- Wikidata
- Q31096678
Sources
References
- 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