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Islay, Dun Athad
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC1877
Location
- Atlas number
- SC1877 (1877)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kildalton And Oa
- National Grid reference
- NR 2849 4070
- Latitude
- 55.58407
- Longitude
- -6.31020
- Altitude
- 105 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and vitrification
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- after AD 800 and undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878); Other (1959); Earthwork Survey (1978); Other (2007); Other (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 13271
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 1903
- National record
- record NR 24 SE 3; monument 37290
- Wikidata
- Q31089766
Sources
References
- Lamont, W (1959) 'From the Islay Archaeological Survey Group', Disc Exc Scot 1959, 154
- Macfarlane, W 1906 Geographical Collections Relating to Scotland, 1-3 (Mitchell, A ed), Edinburgh
- RCAHMS (1984) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Argyll: an inventory of the monuments volume 5: Islay, Jura, Colonsay and Oronsay. HMSO: Edinburgh