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Bute, Ardnahoe
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1151
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1151 (1151)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Buteshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kingarth
- National Grid reference
- NS 0663 5744
- Latitude
- 55.77157
- Longitude
- -5.08430
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.05 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1863); Other (1893); Other (1943); Other (1975); Other (1976); Earthwork Survey (2009)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 4824
- National record
- record NS 05 NE 2; monument 40242
- Wikidata
- Q31088393
Sources
References
- Hewison, Rev. J K (1892-93) 'On the Prehistoric forts of the Island of Bute'. PSAS 27 (1893-3), 281-93