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Skid Hill is a 186 metres high
The hill origin is
Very close to the actual summit of Skid Hill stands a
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Hills of the Scottish Midland Valley Mountains and hills of East Lothian
hill
A hill is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain. It often has a distinct Summit (topography), summit.
Terminology
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of eastern Scotland
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, the highest of the Garleton Hills.
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The hill origin is volcanic
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates a ...
and it shows both trachitic and basic lava
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s, recognisable thanks to the excavations connected to the disused quarry opened in its eastern flanks.
History
Ahill fort
A hillfort is a type of earthwork used as a fortified refuge or defended settlement, located to exploit a rise in elevation for defensive advantage. They are typically European and of the Bronze Age or Iron Age. Some were used in the post-Roma ...
was detected close to the top of Skid Hill, in one area now located on the northern edge of the disused quarry.
Access to the summit
Very close to the actual summit of Skid Hill stands a trig point
A triangulation station, also known as a trigonometrical point, and sometimes informally as a trig, is a fixed surveying station, used in geodetic surveying and other surveying projects in its vicinity. The nomenclature varies regionally: they a ...
. It can be easily accessed on foot from a road flanking the hill by a good track running along the South side of the hill and then by cattle tracks on its western side.
See also
*List of mountains in Scotland
Scotland is the most mountainous country in the United Kingdom. Scotland's mountain ranges can be divided in a roughly north to south direction into: the Scottish Highlands, the Central Belt and the Southern Uplands, the latter two primarily belo ...
* List of places in East Lothian
''Map of places in East Lothian compiled from this list''
The List of places in East Lothian is a list for any town, village, hamlet, castle, golf course, historic house, hill fort, lighthouse, nature reserve, reservoir, river, and other place of ...
References
External links
{{commons category-inline, Skid Hill * Description of the hill fort oancientmonuments.uk
Hills of the Scottish Midland Valley Mountains and hills of East Lothian