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Spott Dod
East Lothian, Scotland · Atlas SC3914
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3914 (3914)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Spott
- National Grid reference
- NT 6649 7447
- Latitude
- 55.96212
- Longitude
- -2.53832
- Altitude
- 185 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 1.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- palisade
- Enclosing works, excavated
- palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- 800–400 BC and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1977); Excavation (1983); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5767
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL1689
- National record
- record NT 67 SE 5; monument 57798
- Wikidata
- Q31096841
Sources
References
- Mercer, R (1983a) 'Spott Dod (Spott p), crop-mark enclosure'. Disc Exc Scot (1983), 19
- Mercer, R (1983b) Excavations at Spott Dod, Near Dunbar, 1983. Unpublished report (RCAHMS MS360/1)