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Birks Plantation
East Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3920
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3920 (3920)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Whittingehame
- National Grid reference
- NT 6022 7175
- Latitude
- 55.93725
- Longitude
- -2.63822
- Altitude
- 165 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort and level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.37 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1999)
Identifiers
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL6518
- National record
- record NT 67 SW 101; monument 245417
- Wikidata
- Q31096735
Sources