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Latitude: 55.8846 / 55°53'4"N
Longitude: -3.3904 / 3°23'25"W
OS Eastings: 313125
OS Northings: 666588
OS Grid: NT131665
Mapcode National: GBR 40RD.SD
Mapcode Global: WH6SW.WCQ4
Entry Name: Kaimes Hill,fort
Scheduled Date: 23 February 1924
Last Amended: 21 February 1995
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM1172
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort)
Location: Ratho
County: City of Edinburgh
Electoral Ward: Pentland Hills
Traditional County: Midlothian
The monument comprises the remains of a multivallate prehistoric fort surviving as a series of earthworks.
The fort occupies the summit of Kaimes Hill and is bounded to the NW by a steep rocky scarp and to the S by a modern quarry that has destroyed much of its S part. The surviving area is enclosed by five parallel ditches and ramparts at its E end while the natural topography provides the defence and delimitation of the remainder of the periphery. In the interior are the remains of numerous round houses represented by circular stances of around 12-15m in diameter. Excavations in advance of quarrying demonstrated that the fort was constructed and occupied in several phases during the latter half of the 1st millennium BC.
The area to be scheduled encompasses the visible features and an area around them in which traces of associated activity may be expected to survive. It has maximum dimensions of 310m ENE-WSW by 120m as marked in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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