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Barmore
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1226
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1226 (1226)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilmodan
- National Grid reference
- NS 0025 8237
- Latitude
- 55.99263
- Longitude
- -5.20433
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.26 ha
- Footprint
- 0.48 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west); Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1965); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1972); Other (1976); Earthwork Survey (1985)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 5120
- National record
- record NS 08 SW 6; monument 40542
- Wikidata
- Q31088469
Sources
References
- Christian, I 1965 'Glendaruel, Cowal'. Disc Exc Scot 1965, 6
- RCAHMS (1988) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Argyll: an inventory of the monuments volume 6: Mid-Argyll and Cowal, prehistoric and early historic monuments. HMSO: Edinburgh