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Dunbar, Castle Park
East Lothian, Scotland · Atlas SC3911
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3911 (3911)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dunbar
- National Grid reference
- NT 6779 7924
- Latitude
- 56.00513
- Longitude
- -2.51802
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 3, SW 3, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 4
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.56 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.17 ha, 0.3 ha, 0.47 ha, 0.56 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall and palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- parkland and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- AD 50–400 and AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual, C14, and Other
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and rectangular structures
- Finds
- metal, metalworking, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1981); Excavation (1987); Excavation (1988); Excavation (1989); Excavation (1990); Excavation (1991); Other (1994)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5960
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL6996
- National record
- record NT 67 NE 141.1; monument 257292
- Wikidata
- Q31096834
Sources
References
- Alcock, L (1981) 'Early historic fortifications in Scotland'. 150-80 (bibliography 182-201) in Guilbert, G (1981) Hill-Fort Studies: Essays for A. H. A. Hogg. Leicester University Press: Leicester
- Hall and Holdsworth, D and P (1989) 'Dunbar burgh and parish, Castle Park, 16th century fortification, medieval, dark age and prehistoric occupation'. Disc Exc Scot (1989), 52
- Perry, D R (2000) Castle Park, Dunbar: two thousand years on a fortified headland. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland Monograph Ser, 16: Edinburgh
- Sermon, R S (1991) 'Bayswell Road, Dunbar (Dunbar parish): multi-period settlement'. Disc Exc Scot (1991), 49