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Doon Hill
East Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3907
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3907 (3907)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Spott
- National Grid reference
- NT 6834 7552
- Latitude
- 55.97167
- Longitude
- -2.50883
- Altitude
- 167 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 3, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.75 ha
- Footprint
- 2.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (South); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1773); Other (1853); Other (1913); Other (1954); Other (1966); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5764
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL1558
- National record
- record NT 67 NE 60; monument 57665
- Wikidata
- Q31096781
Sources
References
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/
- 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