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Islay, Dun Bhoraraig
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2060
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2060 (2060)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilchoman
- National Grid reference
- NR 1765 5745
- Latitude
- 55.72796
- Longitude
- -6.49885
- Altitude
- 116 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 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.21 ha
- Footprint
- 3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878); Other (1934); Earthwork Survey (1975); Other (1978)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 1851
- National record
- record NR 15 NE 14; monument 37238
- Wikidata
- Q31088554
Sources
References
- Childe, V G (1935) 'Notes on some duns in Islay', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 69 (1934-5),
- RCAHMS (1984a) 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