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Latitude: 55.8729 / 55°52'22"N
Longitude: -2.7432 / 2°44'35"W
OS Eastings: 353593
OS Northings: 664664
OS Grid: NT535646
Mapcode National: GBR 908J.XK
Mapcode Global: WH7VB.TNW4
Entry Name: Blinkbonny Wood,enclosures 200m N of
Scheduled Date: 22 November 1993
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5826
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: enclosure (domestic or defensive)
Location: Yester
County: East Lothian
Electoral Ward: Haddington and Lammermuir
Traditional County: East Lothian
This monument comprises a rectilinear ditched enclosure and a circular palisaded enclosure represented by cropmarks visible on oblique aerial photographs. The two enclosures occupy undulating land between 210 and 220m OD in an area dominated by a major later prehistoric hillfort, the Castles, 350m to the SW.
The rectilinear ditched enclosure lies on locally high ground with open outlooks. It is defined by a broad ditch, approximately 6-7m wide and enclosing an area of some 60m NW-SE by a minimum of 50m. Three sides of the enclosure are visible as cropmarks but the remaining, NE, side is not visible on the photographs due to differential crop cover. There is no break in the visible portions of the ditch.
The interior of the enclosure is dominated by a dense, dark cropmark of "figure-of-eight" plan which may represent the remains of internal buildings and their associated deposits. To the E of the ditched enclosure, on level, lower-lying ground, are the remains of a circular, palisaded enclosure some 40m in diameter. There are no indications of an entrance or of internal deposits.
The area to be scheduled encompasses the visible features and an area around them in which traces of associated deposits may be expected to survive. It is irregular in shape with maximum dimensions of 290m E-W by 155m as marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance because of its potential to add to our understanding of prehistoric settlement and economy. The rectilinear enclosure is of a type thought to date to the period of the Roman incursions into Scotland. The internal deposits of this enclosure will provide important information on house construction and spatial patterning of domestic and economic activities in this period. Its relationship with the adjacent palisaded enclosure will provide evidence for the relationships between these two distinctive forms of later prehistoric settlement.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NT 56 SW 12 and 28.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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