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Bute, Little Dunagoil
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1180
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1180 (1180)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Buteshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kingarth
- National Grid reference
- NS 0864 5332
- Latitude
- 55.73544
- Longitude
- -5.04939
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.07 ha
- Footprint
- 0.17 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- postholes
- Finds
- pottery, metalworking, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1880); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1915); Other (1948); Other (1953); Excavation (1958); Excavation (1959); Excavation (1960); Excavation (1961); Other (1976); Other (1993); Earthwork Survey (1994); Earthwork Survey (20
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 409
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 4862
- National record
- record NS 05 SE 14; monument 40280
- Wikidata
- Q31089702
Sources
References
- Duffy, P R J (2012) One Island, Many Voices: Bute, Archaeology and the Discover Bute Landscape Partnership Scheme, Donington (pp 9,10,75,76)
- Geddes and Hale, G F and A G C (2010) RCAHMS: The Archaeological Landscape of Bute, Edinburgh
- Harding, Ralston and Burgess, D W, I B M and C (1994) 'Little Dunagoil (Kingarth parish)', Disc Exc Scot 1994, 57
- Laing and Laing, L and J (1986) 'Scottish and Irish metalwork and the "conspiratio barbarica"'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 116 (1986), 211-21
- Marshall and Speirs, D N and A (1992) History of Bute, Revision (Rothesay) (p 29-30)
- Marshall, D N (1964) 'Report on excavations at Little Dunagoil', Trans Buteshire Natur Hist Soc 16 (1964), 3-69
- Ross, W (1880) Blain's History of Bute, in Rev. William Ross, Rothesay
- Schmidt and Burgess, P K and C B (1981) 'The axes of Scotland and Northern England'. Prahistorische Bronzefunde, 9, Munchen, Germany