Archaeology Notes

Event ID 717156

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT57SE 29 NT 57101 72554

NT 572 726. Enclosure (Site), West Mains: An aerial photograph reveals, at about 400ft OD, part of a single-ditched enclosure, comprising two straight sides about 300ft long, meeting in a right angle. There is an apparent entrance-gap in the SE side. This is one of at least twenty rectilinear ditched enclosures in Mid- and East Lothian which are superficially comparable with the Iron Age timber-house sites of the Northumberland coastal plain.

G Maxwell 1970

This site falls at NT 5711 7254, on the slight NE slope of an arable field. There is no trace of any feature.

Visited by OS (RD) 26 March 1965

Further aerial photographs of this enclosure have been taken by the RCAHMS in 1976, 1977 and 1979.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

Scheduled as enclosure.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling order dated 23 May 1994.