Glen Cottage
Fort (Iron Age)
Site Name Glen Cottage
Classification Fort (Iron Age)
Alternative Name(s) Dry Burn
Canmore ID 58931
Site Number NT77SW 28
NGR NT 70009 74274
NGR Description Centre
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council East Lothian
- Parish Dunbar
- Former Region Lothian
- Former District East Lothian
- Former County East Lothian
NT77SW 28 NT 70009 74267
Scheduled as Glen Cottage, enclosure.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 22 November 1993.
Note (8 January 2016 - 1 June 2016)
Cropmarks have revealed a D-shaped fort or fortified settlement backing onto the escarpment dropping into the gorge of the Dry Burn from the N, above its confluence with a minor tributary draining the S flank of Pinkerton Hill. In detail, the enclosure has adopted the steepest part of the escarpment in this sector, its ditch drawn in an arc from the lip of the slope on the WSW and disappearing into natural cropmarks formed in a fold in the contours on the ENE. The ditch is a little over 5m in breadth where it is best defined on the W and encloses an area measuring about 70m from ENE to WSW along the chord formed by the escarpment by 47m transversely (0.25ha); making an allowance for the presence of an internal rampart, the interior would have extended to about 0.2ha. There is a clearly-defined entrance causeway about 4m wide on the W and several irregular maculae indicate the positions of structures within the interior. Several other fortified sites exploit this same escarpment nearby (Atlas Nos.3925-6), lying some 400m and 500m E respectively.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 01 June 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC3929
Note (10 June 2023)
The location, classification and period of this site have been reviewed and changed from SETTLEMENT (PERIOD UNASSIGNED).