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Whittingehame Castle
East Lothian, Scotland · Atlas SC3918
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3918 (3918)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Whittingehame
- National Grid reference
- NT 6002 7299
- Latitude
- 55.94834
- Longitude
- -2.64172
- Altitude
- 110 m
Form and condition
- Type
- level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- palisade
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Over-lapping (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- AD 50–400 and undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits and postholes
- Finds
- pottery, metal, and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1983); Other (1994); Geophysical Survey (2000); Excavation (2002)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 6067
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL1699
- National record
- record NT 67 SW 15; monument 57809
- Wikidata
- Q31096885
Sources
References
- Haselgrove, C (2002) «Whittingehame Tower, East Lothian (Whittingehame parish), Iron Age settlement'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 3 (2002), 43
- Haselgrove, C, Carne, P and Fitts, L (2009) «Excavations at Whittingehame Tower. 23-42 in Haselgrove, C (2009) The Traprain Law Environs Project: Fieldwork and Excavations 2000-2004. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland: Edinburgh