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Bute, Dun Scalpsie
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1153
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1153 (1153)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Buteshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- North Bute
- National Grid reference
- NS 0548 5868
- Latitude
- 55.78227
- Longitude
- -5.10359
- Altitude
- 40 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.18 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Finds
- metalworking, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1863); Other (1893); Other (1943); Excavation (1959); Other (1976); Earthwork Survey (2010)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 4836
- National record
- record NS 05 NE 4; monument 40254
- Wikidata
- Q31088448
Sources
References
- Duffy, P R J (2012) One Island, Many Voices: Bute, Archaeology and the Discover Bute Landscape Partnership Scheme, Donington (pp 50,51,55,59,75,76)
- Geddes and Hale, G F and A G C (2010) RCAHMS: The Archaeological Landscape of Bute, Edinburgh
- Hewison, Rev. J K (1892-93) 'On the Prehistoric forts of the Island of Bute'. PSAS 27 (1893-3), 281-93
- MacCallum, R E (1959) 'Dun Scalpsie'. Disc Exc Scot 1959, 21
- MacCallum, R E (1963) 'Report on the excavation at Dun Scalpsie, Isle of Bute, July, 1959', Trans Buteshire Natur Hist Soc 15 (1963), 45-52