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Hanging Craig
East Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3875
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3875 (3875)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Haddington
- National Grid reference
- NT 5304 7671
- Latitude
- 55.98112
- Longitude
- -2.75403
- Altitude
- 112 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 4, SW 3, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 0.84 ha
- Footprint
- 1.7 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (West); Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1954); Other (1994)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 6035
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL970
- National record
- record NT 57 NW 89; monument 56370
- Wikidata
- Q31096688
Sources