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Latitude: 56.012 / 56°0'43"N
Longitude: -2.7276 / 2°43'39"W
OS Eastings: 354732
OS Northings: 680133
OS Grid: NT547801
Mapcode National: GBR 2T.TC4L
Mapcode Global: WH7TS.24FZ
Entry Name: Congalton Gardens,enclosures,settlement and pit alignment E of
Scheduled Date: 31 January 1994
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5888
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive)
Location: Dirleton
County: East Lothian
Electoral Ward: North Berwick Coastal
Traditional County: East Lothian
The monument comprises the remains of two enclosed settlements, a pit alignment and a series of other features of prehistoric date represented by cropmarks visible on oblique aerial photographs.
The site is on gently sloping arable farmland at around 50m OD. On the E part of the site lie the remains of an enclosure, almost square on plan, defined by a single ditch some 4m to 6m wide with an internal palisade trench, which may have held the timber revetment for a vanished rampart. The enclosure measures about 65m along each side. This enclosure overlaps an E-W running alignment made up of small, closely-spaced pits which continues for 400m to the W of the enclosure.
Towards its W end the pit alignment crosses a series of dense, dark cropmarks which may represent occupation deposits associated with domestic buildings of uncertain form. S of these features lies a circular, single-ditched enclosure some 60m to 70m across, again with a concentric internal palisade trench. Inside this enclosure are cropmarks similar in form to those along the pit alignment, supporting the interpretation of the former group as the remains of domestic occupation.
The monument appears to represent elements of a multi-phase prehistoric landscape involving both open and enclosed settlement and formal land divisions. The area to be scheduled encompasses the features described and an area around them in which traces of associated activity may be expected to survive. It is irregular in plan with maximum dimensions of 540m E-W by 300m N-S, as marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance because it is a multi-period landscape with varied settlement forms, and has a high potential to add to our understanding of prehistoric settlement development, economic practices and patterns of land division. The inter-relationships, both functional and chronological, of the various elements have the potential to be of particular importance in assessing the nature and development of prehistoric agricultural society and its interaction with the physical landscape.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NT 58 SW 24 and 25.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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