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Knock Scalbart
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2059
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2059 (2059)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Campbeltown
- National Grid reference
- NR 7302 2222
- Latitude
- 55.44113
- Longitude
- -5.59013
- Altitude
- 215 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.19 ha
- Footprint
- 0.25 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1866); Other (1955); Earthwork Survey (1960); Other (1971); Other (1977)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3096
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 3399
- National record
- record NR 72 SW 25; monument 38807
- Wikidata
- Q31089796
Sources
References
- Harding, D W (1997) 'Forts, duns, brochs and crannogs: Iron Age settlements in Argyll', in Ritchie, G The archaeology of Argyll, Edinburgh (p 120)
- RCAHMS (1971) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Argyll: an inventory of the ancient monuments, volume 1: Kintyre. HMSO: Edinburgh
- Saville, A (2002) 'Knock Scalbert, Argyll and Bute (Campbeltown parish), Neolithic stone axehead'. Disc Exc Scot, New ser, 3 (2002), 14