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Whitelaw
East Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3877
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3877 (3877)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Whittingehame
- National Grid reference
- NT 5649 7264
- Latitude
- 55.94493
- Longitude
- -2.69808
- Altitude
- 91 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Footprint
- 0.34 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1954); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1965); Other (2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 8774
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL1018
- National record
- record NT 57 SE 28; monument 56419
- Wikidata
- Q31096705
Sources