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Buachailean
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1230
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1230 (1230)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Dunoon And Kilmun
- National Grid reference
- NS 1220 7023
- Latitude
- 55.88853
- Longitude
- -5.00458
- Altitude
- 340 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
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 (1819); Other (1865); Other (1973); Other (1994); Other (2015)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 5335
- National record
- record NS 17 SE 4; monument 40757
- Wikidata
- Q31088506
Sources
References
- Dorren, Garner and Henry, D, A and N (2001) 'Buachaillean, Argyll and Bute (Dunoon and Kilmun parish), ?hillfort', Disc Exc Scot 2 (2001), 18-19 Fig. 7
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/
- Paterson, M (1970) Cowal before history, (p 20)
- Rennie, E B (1995) 'Buchailean Hill (Dunoon & Kilmun parish', Disc Exc Scot 1995, 61