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Congalton
Palisaded Settlement (Iron Age), Pit Alignment (Iron Age), Settlement (Iron Age)
Site Name Congalton
Classification Palisaded Settlement (Iron Age), Pit Alignment (Iron Age), Settlement (Iron Age)
Alternative Name(s) Congalton Gardens
Canmore ID 56754
Site Number NT58SW 24
NGR NT 54921 80203
NGR Description Centre
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/56754
- Council East Lothian
- Parish Dirleton
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District East Lothian
- Former County East Lothian
NT58SW 24 NT 54957 80210
NT 549 802. A single-ditched rectangular enclosure, measuring at least 200ft square, is parly visible on air photographs. It is situated on Congalton farm, at a height of about 70ft 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.
Scheduled (with NT57NW 34 and NT58SW 25 and NT58SW 58 ) as Congalton Gardens, enclosure and pit alignment.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 31 January 1994.
Further air photographs, which also reveal a pit-alignment, have been taken by the RCAHMS in 1976, 1979, 1990, 1993 and 1995.
(Undated) information in NMRS.
Note (6 June 2023)
The location, classification and period of this site have been reviewed and changed from PIT ALIGNMENT (PREHISTORIC), SETTLEMENT (PREHISTORIC).
