Archaeology Notes

Event ID 717234

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT46NW 39 NT 43636 68538

Wester Pencaitland. Scheduled with NT46NW 36 as fort and enclosure.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 14 October 1993.

This fort has been recorded as cropmarks on oblique aerial photographs (RCAHMSAP 1979, 1980, 1983, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995, 2000) and lies on a terrace about 200m WSW of Wester Pencaitland. The fort is roughly circular on plan and measures about 90m in diameter within a ditch about 5m across and a narrower outer ditch. There are entrances on the SW and E.

Information from RCAHMS (KMM) 20 May 2004.