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Auldhame
East Lothian, Scotland · Atlas SC3921
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3921 (3921)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Whitekirk And Tyninghame
- National Grid reference
- NT 6019 8474
- Latitude
- 56.05396
- Longitude
- -2.64072
- Altitude
- 22 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.4 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- rectangular structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1989); Other (1996); Excavation (2005); Excavation (2008); Other (2011)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 13004
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL1743
- National record
- record NT 68 SW 17 & 30; monument 57854 & 70843
- Wikidata
- Q31096889
Sources
References
- Hindmarch, E (2005) 'Auldhame (Whitekirk and Tyninghame parish), Early christian cemetery'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 6 (2005), 57-8
- Hindmarch, E (2008) 'Auldhame 2008, East Lothian (Whitekirk and Tyninghame parish), walkover and survey'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser, 9 (2008), 65
- Laidlaw, J W (1870) 'Notice of an ancient structure and remains from a "kitchen-midden", on an isolated rock near Seacliff, East Lothian'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 8 (1868-70), 372-7