Chalkieside
Enclosed Settlement (Prehistoric)
Site Name Chalkieside
Classification Enclosed Settlement (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 53399
Site Number NT36NE 7
NGR NT 36464 68260
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/53399
- Council East Lothian
- Parish Inveresk (East Lothian)
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District East Lothian
- Former County Midlothian
NT36NE 7 NT 36464 68260
NT 364 683. Enclosure (Site), Chalkieside: Cropmarks on aerial photographs reveal, at about 400ft OD, parts of a single-ditched enclosure, probably trapezoidal on plan, measuring approximately 250ft by 300ft axially.
This is one of at least twenty enclosures in Mid- and East Lothian which are superficially comparable with Iron Age timber-house sites of the Northumberland coastal plain.
G Maxwell 1970
NT 3646 6826. There are no surface remains at this site, which falls on a slight platform on a shallow slope overlooking a broad valley to the W.
Site surveyed at 1:2500 from APs.
Visited by OS (RD) 1 March 1971
Further aerial photographs have been taken by the RCAHMS.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
Site identified during an archaeological assessment carried out by CFA Archaeology Ltd.
Mhairi Hastie, 2006.
Field Visit (1 March 1971)
NT 3646 6826. There are no surface remains at this site, which falls on a slight platform on a shallow slope overlooking a broad valley to the W.
Site surveyed at 1:2500 from APs.
Visited by OS (RD) 1 March 1971
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.
Desk Based Assessment (2006)
Site identified during an archaeological assessment carried out by CFA Archaeology Ltd.
Mhairi Hastie, 2006.
Aerial Photographic Transcription (15 March 2019)
An interpretative transcription, or mapping, of information on oblique aerial photographs was produced on 15 March 2019.
Note
Further aerial photographs have been taken by the RCAHMS.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
