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Whippielaw
Enclosure (Prehistoric)
Site Name Whippielaw
Classification Enclosure (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Pathhead
Canmore ID 53567
Site Number NT36SE 37
NGR NT 39585 63565
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/53567
- Council Midlothian
- Parish Crichton
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District Midlothian
- Former County Midlothian
NT36SE 37 3959 6358
See also NT36SE 3, NT36SE 17, NT36SE 34, NT36SE 38.
(NT 3959 6358) Two rectangular enclosures, sharing a common side, appear as crop marks at the W corner of the smaller Roman temporary camp at Pathhead.
Univ Edinburgh Extra-mural Dept 1979
A single-ditched trapezoidal enclosure, measuring some 200 ft along the main axes, intersects the N end of the smaller camp at Pathhead. This site is of special importance in that excavation might throw light on the relationship between the Roman occupation and this example of a type of rectilinear ditched enclosure which occurs in the Lothians and in north England where it is known to have been occupied by native timber huts during the Roman period.
G Maxwell 1970
This area is under pasture and none of the markings can be identified on the ground.
Visited by OS (SFS) 16 April 1975
Note (1988)
Whippielaw 1 NT 3959 6358 NT36SE 37
Cropmarks 250m SSW of Pathhead reveal two adjoining enclosures intersecting the N end of the smallest of the Roman temporary camps NT36SE 3 & 17. Both are roughly square, the larger measuring about 30m across the interior.
RCAHMS 1988
(Maxwell 1970, 89, no. 7)
