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Blackcastle Hill
East Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3927
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3927 (3927)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Innerwick
- National Grid reference
- NT 7128 7174
- Latitude
- 55.93789
- Longitude
- -2.46132
- Altitude
- 312 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- 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
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and unfinished work
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1773); 1st Identified Written Reference (1791); Other (1853); Earthwork Survey (1913); Other (1954); Other (1966); Other (1977)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3933
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL1904
- National record
- record NT 77 SW 7; monument 58973
- Wikidata
- Q31096902
Sources
References
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99
- Feachem, R W (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- RCAHMS (1924) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Eighth report with Inventory of Monuments and Constructions in the County of East Lothian. HMSO: Edinburgh