Easter Cowden
Enclosed Settlement(S) (Prehistoric)
Site Name Easter Cowden
Classification Enclosed Settlement(S) (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 53336
Site Number NT36NE 16
NGR NT 36210 67470
NGR Description NT 3612 6747 and NT 3615 6733
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Midlothian
- Parish Dalkeith
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District Midlothian
- Former County Midlothian
NT36NE 16 3621 6747 to 3615 6733
These two enclosures are situated on flat, cultivated land. There is nothing to be seen on the ground.
Sites surveyed at 1:2500 from CUCAP air photographs BD 48, DJ 70.
Visited by OS 1 March 1971.
What may be ploughed-down field boundaries have been recorded as cropmarks on oblique aerial photography (RCAHMSAP 2000) immediately S of Easter Cowden, lying to the S and E of the enclosure recorded at NT 3621 6748.
Information from RCAHMS (KMM) 9 June 2004
Note (1988)
Easter Cowden 1 NT 3619 67 48 NT36NE 16
Cropmarks immediately to the S of Easter Cowden reveal the S, E and W sides of a subrectangular enclosure measuring 40m by at least 40m over its ditch.
RCAHMS 1988
(Maxwell 1970, 89, no. 4)
Easter Cowden 2 NT 3616 6737 NT36NE 16
Cropmarks reveal a rectangular enclosure, measuring 35m from NE to SW by 25m transversely within a ditch 2m broad, about 200m SW of Easter Cowden. There is an entrance with expanded ditch terminals in the middle of the NE side.
RCAHMS 1988
(Maxwell 1970, 89, no. 5)
Aerial Photographic Transcription (13 December 1990 - 18 December 1990)
An aerial transcription was produced from oblique aerial photographs. Information from Historic Environment Scotland (BM) 31 March 2017.
