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Bute, Barone Hill
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1172
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1172 (1172)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Buteshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- North Bute
- National Grid reference
- NS 0696 6308
- Latitude
- 55.82232
- Longitude
- -5.08308
- Altitude
- 160 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.7 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.2 ha, 0.7 ha
- Footprint
- 0.7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1863); Other (1893); Other (1943); Other (1964); Other (1976); Other (2009)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2430
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 5002
- National record
- record NS 06 SE 9; monument 40424
- Wikidata
- Q31089681
Sources
References
- Feachem, R (1963) A guide to prehistoric Scotland, London (p 113)
- Hewison, Rev. J K (1892-93) 'On the Prehistoric forts of the Island of Bute'. PSAS 27 (1893-3), 281-93