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Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Broxmouth Hill FortCountry: Scotland County: East Lothian Type: Hillfort
Nearest Village: Dunbar
Map Ref: NT7011177388
Latitude: 55.988523N Longitude: 2.480662W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
2 | Not Good |
1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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Broxmouth was a hill fort in East Lothian almost totally excavated during the 1970s prior to the construction of a cement works. The site was occupied from the early Iron Age through to its abandonment during the Roman occupation. Remarkably well-preserved roundhouses, elaborate hill fort entrances and an exceptionally rare Iron Age cemetery were discovered at the site.
The near-total excavation of the site marked one of the first major rescue projects in Scotland; it is now entirely gone, and like many projects of its time it remained unpublished until recently.
There is some evidence of human activity dating back to around 3000 BC. The early Iron Age structure was limited to a palisade trench and some fragmentary ditch elements. The major enclosure was built about 500 BC, and rebuilt several times over the next two hundred years. Eventually, the fort had at least four ramparts and ditches and a complex series of entrance gates.
For more information see Canmore ID 58800 which gives details of finds, usage of the site throughout the ages and the three defensive stages: "a palisade enclosing .25ha on the crown of the hill; a univallate defence with a single entrance enclosing .65ha; and a multivallate defence with entrances in the E and SW extending over 2ha."
Note: Excavations of the Broxmouth hillfort destroyed in the 1970s have been published, metal find is earliest use of steel in Britain and Ireland
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