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Craig's Quarry
East Lothian, Scotland · Atlas SC3899
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3899 (3899)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dirleton
- National Grid reference
- NT 5082 8349
- Latitude
- 56.04180
- Longitude
- -2.79097
- Altitude
- 45 m
Form and condition
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- AD 50–400 and undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, human bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1943); Excavation (1949); Excavation (1954); Excavation (1955); Excavation (1958); Other (1962)
Identifiers
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL1343
- National record
- record NT 58 SW 2; monument 56749
- Wikidata
- Q31096624
Sources
References
- Burley, E (1955) «Craig's Quarry, Dirleton'. Disc Exc Scot (1955), 15
- Henshall, A S (1955) «East Lothian, Craigs Quarry, Dirleton. Archaeol Newsletter 5.12, (1955), 254
- Henshall, A S (1954) «East Lothian, Craig's Quarry, Dirleton'. Disc Exc Scot (1954), 9
- Piggott and Piggott, S and C M (1952) «Excavations at Castle Law, Glencorse, and at Craig's Quarry, Dirleton, 1948-9'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 86 (1951-2), 191-6
- Piggott and Piggott, S and C M (1949) «Craig's Quarry, Dirleton'. Disc Exc Scot (1949), 9
- Piggott, S. (1958) «Excavations at Braidwood Fort, Midlothian and Craig's Quarry, Dirleton, East Lothian'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 91 (1957-8), 61-77
- Simpson, D D A (1958) «Craigs Quarry, Dirleton'. Disc Exc Scot (1958), 21-2