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Coldale, enclosure 550m SSW of is a post-medieval agricultural enclosure located in East Lothian, Scotland. The monument sits upon Unnamed Extrusive Rocks of Dinantian age, felsic lava and tuff formations laid down during the Mississippian period and now underlying much of the local bedrock. This geological foundation of ancient volcanic material provided the stone resources historically available to builders in the area.
The enclosure represents the pragmatic field management practices of early modern rural Scotland, when landowners and tenant farmers increasingly formalised their holdings with constructed boundaries. Built from locally quarried stone, such enclosures served dual purposes: containing livestock and defining property rights during a period of agricultural intensification and reorganisation of the Scottish landscape.
The monument is protected by Historic Environment Scotland as a scheduled monument under reference SM5940, recognising its significance as evidence of post-medieval land use and settlement patterns in East Lothian. The structure survives as a tangible record of how communities shaped their environment to support farming activities, forming part of the broader archaeological narrative of rural transformation in early modern Scotland.
Coldale, enclosure 550m SSW of is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5940. View the official record →
Coldale, enclosure 550m SSW of is a post-medieval agricultural enclosure located in East Lothian, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5940.
Coldale, enclosure 550m SSW of dates from the post-medieval period, and is classified as a enclosure. It is one of over 32,000 scheduled monuments protected across the UK.
Coldale, enclosure 550m SSW of is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM5940.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Park,fort 800m SE of (7.8 km), Quarryford House,enclosures,souterrain and pit alignment SW of (7.9 km), Park,fort 900m SSE of (8 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Coldale, enclosure 550m SSW of's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Coldale, enclosure 550m SSW of stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Dinantian, bedrock that formed in the Mississippian. The rock here is felsic lava and felsic tuff.