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White Castle
East Lothian, Scotland · Atlas SC3902
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3902 (3902)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Garvald And Bara
- National Grid reference
- NT 6135 6860
- Latitude
- 55.90899
- Longitude
- -2.61982
- Altitude
- 318 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 3, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.28 ha, 0.6 ha
- Footprint
- 0.98 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (South west); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures and curvilinear platforms
- Interior excavation
- pits and postholes
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1799); Other (1853); Other (1892); Earthwork Survey (1913); Other (1923); Other (1954); Other (1961); Other (1968); Excavation (2010); Excavation (2011); Excavation (2012); Geophysical Survey (2012); Excavation (2013); Earthw
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 756
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL1392
- National record
- record NT 66 NW 1; monument 57479
- Wikidata
- Q31096763
Sources
References
- Cook, M (2014) 'Garvald and Bara, White Castle Season 4, Excavation and survey'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 14 (2013), 69-70
- Cook, M, and Connolly, D (2010) 'White Castle Season 1, East Lothian (Garvald and Bara parish), survey and excavation'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 11 (2010), 59-60
- Cook, M, and Connolly, D (2011) 'White Castle Season 2, East Lothian (Garvald and Bara parish), survey and excavation'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 12 (2011), 64
- Cook, M, and Connolly, D (2012) Rampart Scotland Project 001: The Hillforts of East Lothian Season 2. White Castle, Garvald, East Lothian Data Structure Report and Post Excavation Assessment. Unpublished report http://www.rampartscotland.co.uk/index.php/publications/
- Cook, M, and Connolly, D (2013) Rampart Scotland Project 001: The Hillforts of East Lothian Season 3. White Castle, Garvald, East Lothian, Data Structure Report. Unpublished report http://www.rampartscotland.co.uk/index.php/publications/
- Cook, M, and Connolly, D (2014) Rampart Scotland Project 001: The Hillforts of East Lothian Season 4. White Castle, Garvald, East Lothian, Data Structure Report. Unpublished report http://www.rampartscotland.co.uk/index.php/publications/
- Cook, M, Connolly, D and Kdolska, H (2010) Rampart Scotland Project 001: The Hillforts of East Lothian Season 3. White Castle, Garvald, East Lothian: Data Structure Report and Costed Post Excavation Research Design. Unpublished report http://www.rampartscotland.co.uk/index.php/publications/
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. London: Batsford
- 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