Morham Mains
Settlement (Prehistoric)
Site Name Morham Mains
Classification Settlement (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Morham Mains 2
Canmore ID 56422
Site Number NT57SE 30
NGR NT 55898 71495
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council East Lothian
- Parish Morham
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District East Lothian
- Former County East Lothian
NT57SE 30 NT 55898 71495
NT 558 715. A single-ditched, oblong enclosure measuring at least 350ft by 200ft, with an entrance on the W, is visible on air photograph.
It is situated on Morham Mains farm, at a height of about 350ft OD.
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
The site of this enclosure falls on the top of a slight plateau in a ploughed field at NT 5590 7151. There is now no trace of any feature.
Visited by OS (RD) 26 March 1965
No change to the previous field report.
Visited by OS (JP) 8 July 1975
Settlement 2, Morham Mains: Further aerial photographs have been taken by the RCAHMS, in 1976, 1977, 1979, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1994 and 1995 and by CUCAP.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
Scheduled as Morham Mains, enclosure.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 10 October 1994.
