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Pleasants
East Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3905
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3905 (3905)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Spott
- National Grid reference
- NT 6586 7549
- Latitude
- 55.97125
- Longitude
- -2.54841
- Altitude
- 85 m
Form and condition
- Type
- hillslope fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 5
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 5, SE 0, SW 0, NW 5
- Number of ditches
- 5
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 1.8 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.49 ha, 1.8 ha
- Footprint
- 2 ha
- Also recorded
- annex, multi-period enclosure system, and ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp and hillslope
- Aspect
- west
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1955); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1966); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5761
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL1543
- National record
- record NT 67 NE 47; monument 57650
- Wikidata
- Q31096772
Sources
References
- St Joseph, J K (1967) 'Air reconnaissance: recent results, 10'. Antiquity 41 (1967), 148-9