The Chesters | Canmore

Ring Ditch House(S) (Later Prehistoric)

Site Name The Chesters

Classification Ring Ditch House(S) (Later Prehistoric)

Alternative Name(s) Foster Law

Canmore ID 347999

Site Number NT57NW 189

NGR NT 51116 78541

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/347999

Digital Images

DP 216708

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the ring ditch houses, looking SW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

9/7/2015

DP 216701

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the ring ditch houses and the pit-defined boundary, looking S.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

9/7/2015

DP 216709

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the ring ditch houses and the pit-defined boundary, looking S.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

9/7/2015

DP 216699

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the ring ditch houses and the pit-defined boundary with The Chesters fort beyond, looking WSW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

9/7/2015

DP 216710

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the ring ditch houses and the pit-defined boundary, looking SSE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

9/7/2015

DP 398069

Rectified oblique aerial photograph

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Historic Environment Scotland

29/9/2022

DP 216700

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the ring ditch houses and the pit-defined boundary, looking WSW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

9/7/2015

DP 216704

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the ring ditch houses and the pit-defined boundary and The Chesters fort, looking ENE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

9/7/2015

DP 216702

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the ring ditch houses and the pit-defined boundary with The Chesters fort beyond, looking S.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

9/7/2015

DP 216711

Oblique aerial view of the cropmarks of the ring ditch houses and the pit-defined boundary, looking SE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

9/7/2015

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Administrative Areas

Council East Lothian
Parish Athelstaneford
Former Region Lothian
Former District East Lothian
Former County East Lothian

Activities

Aerial Photography (9 July 2015)

2015 RCAHMS Aerial Survey

Note (26 September 2022)

HES Cropmark Rapid Update Project: 2022

The location, classification and period of this site have been reviewed.

Aerial Photographic Interpretation (29 September 2022)

HES Cropmark Rapid Update Project: 2022

Two later prehistoric ring ditch houses have been recorded as cropmarking on oblique aerial photographs (RCAHMSAP 2015) on level ground around 360m NE of The Chesters fort (NT57NW 1). The first (NT 51114 78540) is visible as a crescent-shaped cropmark forming the S section of a ring ditch house measuring about 12m in diameter over a ring ditch about 3m broad. The second ring ditch house (NT 51208 78532) lies some 80m E. It is also visible as a crescent-shaped cropmark and measures about 11m in diameter.

Information from HES Archaeological Survey (F. Vermeij) 29 September 2022

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