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Friar's Nose
East Lothian, Scotland · Atlas SC3903
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3903 (3903)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Whittingehame
- National Grid reference
- NT 6645 6315
- Latitude
- 55.86040
- Longitude
- -2.53757
- Altitude
- 257 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 2, SW 4, NW 4
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.93 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.93 ha, 0.74 ha
- Footprint
- 1.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South west); Over-lapping (North west); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1773); Other (1792); Other (1853); Other (1892); Earthwork Survey (1910); Earthwork Survey (1920); Other (1923); Earthwork Survey (1954); Other (1966); Other (1969)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 748
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL1422
- National record
- record NT 66 SE 1; monument 57509
- Wikidata
- Q31097043
Sources
References
- Craw, J H (1911) «Fort and hut-circles on Whitadder. Hist Berwickshire Natur Club 21 (1909_11), 206-10
- Feachem, R W (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- 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
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99