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Bute, Loch Quien
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1152
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1152 (1152)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Buteshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- North Bute
- National Grid reference
- NS 0625 5908
- Latitude
- 55.78621
- Longitude
- -5.09157
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1977)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 4828
- National record
- record NS 05 NE 23; monument 40246
- Wikidata
- Q31088418
Sources
References
- Maxwell, G S (1980) 'Aerial reconnaissance in Bute 1977', Trans Buteshire Natur Hist Soc 21 (1980), 24, 25 pl.