Note
Date 16 December 2015 - 18 May 2016
Event ID 1045183
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1045183
This fort is situated on the southern shoulder of the broad summit of Whitelaw Hill. Slightly oval on plan, it measures 138m from NE to SW by 125m transversely (0.14ha) within a single ditch up to 4m in breadth; allowing for the presence of an internal rampart, the interior would have extended to about 1.16ha. No trace of the rampart is visible as such, but a faint ring of irregular marks within the line of the ditch are possibly traces of shallow quarries to the rear of the rampart; no other features are visible within the interior. There are clearly defined entrances on the SW and WNW, and probably two others on the NE and ESE respectively. The pit-alignments that approach obliquely from the E and W suggest that the perimeter of the fort may have been subsequently incorporated into a land boundary, as is the case with at least one other iron age enclosure in East Lothian.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 18 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC3876
