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North Berwick Law
East Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3896
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3896 (3896)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- North Berwick
- National Grid reference
- NT 5564 8422
- Latitude
- 56.04883
- Longitude
- -2.71373
- Altitude
- 187 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort, partial contour fort, and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 3, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 9.4 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 1.7 ha, 9.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and curvilinear platforms
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1907); Other (1913); Earthwork Survey (1954); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1968); Other (1975); Other (1976); Other (2001); Other (2006); Other (2012)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3863
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL1293
- National record
- record NT 58 SE 10 & 32; monument 56699 & 56674
- Wikidata
- Q31096745
Sources
References
- Feachem, R W (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Garst, L (2012) North Berwick Law Improvements to Summit Path: Archaeological Monitored Strip. Unpublished report to East Lothian Council
- Lowe, C and Dalland, M (2001) North Berwick Law, East Lothian: An Archaeological Survey. Unpublished report for North Berwick Community Council and East Lothian Council
- Lowe, C and Morrison, J. (2001) 'North Berwick Law, North Berwick, East Lothian (North Berwick parish), desk-based assessment; survey'. Disc Exc Scot New Ser, 2 (2001), 36
- 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