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Bute, Dunagoil
Argyll & Bute, Scotland · Atlas SC1201
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1201 (1201)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Buteshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kingath
- National Grid reference
- NS 0847 5312
- Latitude
- 55.73361
- Longitude
- -5.05194
- Altitude
- 35 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.15 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and vitrification
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall and vitrification
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1780); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1863); Other (1880); Other (1893); Excavation (1914); Excavation (1919); Other (1943); Other (1953); Other (1958); Other (1975); Other (1993); Earthwork Survey (1995); Other (2009); Earthwork Survey (
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 409
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 4873
- National record
- record NS 05 SE 4; monument 40291
- Wikidata
- Q31089729
Sources
References
- Anon (1780) 'Sketch of the ground and remains of a fort at Dunagoyle on the south west end of the island of Bute', held at the Bute Archive, Mount Stuart
- Duffy, P R J (2012) One Island, Many Voices: Bute, Archaeology and the Discover Bute Landscape Partnership Scheme, Donington (pp 9,10,75,76,80,81)
- Geddes and Hale, G F and A G C (2010) RCAHMS: The Archaeological Landscape of Bute, Edinburgh
- Harding, D W (1997) 'Forts, duns, brochs and crannogs: Iron Age settlements in Argyll', in Ritchie, G The archaeology of Argyll, Edinburgh
- Harding, D W (2004a) The Iron Age in Northern Britain: Celts and Romans, natives and invaders, Routledge: London & New York
- Harding, D W (2004b) 'Dunagoil, Bute, re-instated', Transactions of the Buteshire Natural History Society 26 (2004), 1-19
- Harding, Ralston and Burgess, D W, I and C (1995) 'Dunagoil, Isle of Bute (Kingarth parish), survey', Disc Exc Scot
- 1995, 65
- Hewison, Rev. J K (1892-93) 'On the Prehistoric forts of the Island of Bute'. PSAS 27 (1893-3), 281-93
- Mann, L M (1915) 'Report on the relics discovered during excavations in 1913 at cave at Dunagoil, Bute, and in 1914 at the fort at Dunagoil, Bute (with suggestions as to the probable history and chronology of the site)', Trans Buteshire Natur Hist Soc 8 (1915), 61-86
- Mann, L M (1925) 'Note on the results of the exploration of the fort at Dunagoil'. Trans Buteshire Natur Hist Soc 9 (1925), 54-60
- Marshall, J N (1915) 'Preliminary notes on some excavations at Dunagoil fort and cave'. Trans Buteshire Natur Hist Soc 8 (1915), 42-86
- Nisbet, H C (1975) 'A geological approach to vitrified forts, part II: bedrock and building stone'. Sci & Archaeol 15 (1975), 11
- Ross, W (1880) Blain's History of Bute, in Rev. William Ross Rothesay