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Begbie
East Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3884
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3884 (3884)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Haddington
- National Grid reference
- NT 5004 7075
- Latitude
- 55.92728
- Longitude
- -2.80107
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 1, SW 4, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.52 ha
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop and lowland
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1954); Other (1973); Other (1975); Geophysical Survey (2002)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3310
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL1118
- National record
- record NT 57 SW 31; monument 56520
- Wikidata
- Q31096721
Sources