Home / Scotland / East Lothian / Whitelaw Hill
Whitelaw Hill
East Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3876
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3876 (3876)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Whittingehame
- National Grid reference
- NT 5718 7155
- Latitude
- 55.93520
- Longitude
- -2.68691
- Altitude
- 179 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 1.16 ha
- Footprint
- 1.5 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (South west); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1954); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1965); Other (1994)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 6045
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL1007
- National record
- record NT 57 SE 17; monument 56407
- Wikidata
- Q31096697
Sources