Site type EARTHWORK
Canmore ID 49082
Site Number NT06NW 6
NGR NT 0338 6982
Council WEST LOTHIAN
Parish LIVINGSTON
Former Region LOTHIAN
Former District WEST LOTHIAN
Former County WEST LOTHIAN

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Archaeological Notes

NT06NW 6 0338 6982.

(NT 0338 6977) Earthwork (NR)
OS 25" map (1972)

Earthwork, Dechmont Law.
RCAHMS 1957

On Dechmont Law, a N-S ridge, are slight traces of a small earthwork, roughly rectangular on plan and measuring 38.0m N-S by 20m transversely. It consists of a ditch some 6.0m wide and 0.6m deep which crosses the N and S ends of the ridge and is reduced to a slight terrace running along the W face of the ridge a few feet below the shoulder. Quarrying has destroyed all traces of the ditch on the E. There are faint indications of a causeway crossing the ditch on the N. The interior is featureless. The situation of this work is typical of a fort but the remains are now slight and the absence of a rampart prevents a definite classification. (RCAHMS MS, 20 May 1954).
Visited by OS (JP) 18 March 1974

RCAHMS (1957) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. An inventory of the ancient and historical monuments of Selkirkshire with the fifteenth report of the Commission, Edinburgh
Page(s): xviii Held at RCAHMS A.1.1.INV/15