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Kae Heughs, Barney Mains
East Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3874
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3874 (3874)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Haddington
- National Grid reference
- NT 5183 7627
- Latitude
- 55.97703
- Longitude
- -2.77346
- Altitude
- 178 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 3, SW 3, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.84 ha
- Footprint
- 2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble, counterscarp bank, and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (South); Oblique (West); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms and quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1853); Other (1893); Earthwork Survey (1913); Other (1923); Other (1935); Other (1956); Other (1975)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 752
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL896
- National record
- record NT 57 NW 23; monument 56295
- Wikidata
- Q31096682
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