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Easter Broomhouse
East Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3908
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3908 (3908)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Spott
- National Grid reference
- NT 6792 7636
- Latitude
- 55.97922
- Longitude
- -2.51551
- Altitude
- 50 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.36 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.25 ha, 0.36 ha
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1960); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5836
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL1574
- National record
- record NT 67 NE 74; monument 57681
- Wikidata
- Q31096794
Sources