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Innerwick Castle
East Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3928
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3928 (3928)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Innerwick
- National Grid reference
- NT 7347 7372
- Latitude
- 55.95589
- Longitude
- -2.42636
- Altitude
- 65 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 5
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 5, SE 0, SW 5, NW 5
- Number of ditches
- 5
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.48 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, arable, scrub or bracken, and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1964); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5771
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL1854
- National record
- record NT 77 SW 20; monument 58923
- Wikidata
- Q31096908
Sources
References
- Grose, F (1789-91) The antiquities of Scotland (2v). London
- MacGibbon, D and Ross, T (1887-92) The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland from the twelfth to the eighteenth centuries (5v). Edinburgh
- 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