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Pinkerton Hill
East Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3923
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3923 (3923)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dunbar
- National Grid reference
- NT 7018 7508
- Latitude
- 55.96787
- Longitude
- -2.47922
- Altitude
- 140 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 2, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.55 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- spur
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1968); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5844
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL1780
- National record
- record NT 77 NW 26; monument 58811
- Wikidata
- Q31096894
Sources