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Craigy Hill

Quarry(S) (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Craigy Hill

Classification Quarry(S) (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 56281

Site Number NT57NW 10

NGR NT 5102 7651

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council East Lothian
  • Parish Athelstaneford
  • Former Region Lothian
  • Former District East Lothian
  • Former County East Lothian

Archaeology Notes

NT57NW 10 5102 7651.

(NT 5102 7651) The supposed fort on Craigy Hill is no more than the by-product of quarrying at various points on the hill.

RCAHMS 1924, visited 1913; MSS 1956

An area of quarrying as described.

Visited by OS (BS) 16 July 1975

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Field Visit (31 May 1913)

Some 300 yards east-north-east of the last site ([Skid Law fort]No. 14) is an elevated rocky plateau with very steep sides, rising some 500 feet above sea-level, which seems to have been fortified. It is somewhat oval in shape, the longer axis running west-north-west and east-south-east, and measures 300 feet in length by 130 feet in breadth. While there are precipitous sides 30 to 40 feet high round the greater part of the circumference, the slope below the rock falls sharply for about 60 feet on the south and 100 feet on the northern flank. To the east there is a narrow ridge, which slopes away more gradually from the foot of the rock, and to the west the fall from the rock is not more than 20 feet. Round the foot of the rocks at the western end and southern flank is a terrace 30 feet broad in places, which is not carried round the east and north. For some distance from the western end of the northern flank a wall, 8 feet broad at the base and 2 feet high on the inside, has been thrown up 10 feet from the foot of the precipice, and this is continued to a point opposite the north-west, where the terrace on the west meets it some 90 feet from the rock to form a triangular enclosure. In which there are several hollows of irregular shape. A roadway carried slantingly up the scarp on the south-west to the terrace may have formed the entrance to the fort, but it is impossible to say whether this is of ancient or comparatively recent date. Rising from the terrace on the southern side a slight gully in the rocks gives access to the summit and there are slight signs of building at this part.

On the northern side of the top of the rock is a small cave, which the people of the locality associate with the name of Wallace.

RCAHMS 1924, visited 31 May 1913.

Field Visit (30 October 1956)

'Fort', Craigy Hill (Inv. No. 15).

This is not a fort, the terrace, 'rampart' and roadway being simply the by-products of quarrying at various points on the rocky flanks of the hill.

Visited by RCAHMS (KAS) 30 October 1956.

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