Archaeology Notes

Event ID 720472

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NT57SE 16 NT 55445 74095

NT 554 741. Air photographs (RAF CPE/Scot/UK257: 3124-5) reveal, at a height of about 150ft OD, on East Bearford farm, the cropmark of a single-ditched, approximately square enclosure, measuring about 200ft along each axis, with a fairly broad ditch. 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

NT 5545 7410. No trace was found on field investigation. The site lies in an arable field on the edge of a natural bank sloping westwards down to the Bearford Burn.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 23 October 1962

Settlement, East Bearford: Further aerial photographs have been taken by the RCAHMS in 1976, 1981, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994 and 1995. Also visible on CUCAP air photograph.

(Undated) information in NMRS.

Scheduled as East Bearford, enclosure.

Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 22 February 1994.