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Branxton Cottage
East Lothian, Scotland ยท Atlas SC3930
Location
- Atlas number
- SC3930 (3930)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- East Lothian
- Historic county
- East Lothian
- Parish, community, or townland
- Innerwick
- National Grid reference
- NT 7334 7237
- Latitude
- 55.94372
- Longitude
- -2.42836
- Altitude
- 175 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 3, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 3
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.35 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (West); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1971); Other (1994)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5876
- HER
- East Lothian Council MEL1873
- National record
- record NT 77 SW 38; monument 58942
- Wikidata
- Q31096930
Sources