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Islay, Lossit Point, Dun na Faing
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2062
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2062 (2062)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilchoman
- National Grid reference
- NR 1714 5655
- Latitude
- 55.71960
- Longitude
- -6.50602
- Altitude
- 48 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.4 ha
- Footprint
- 2.4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, heather moorland, and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1964); Earthwork Survey (1975); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1978)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 1856
- National record
- record NR 15 NE 3; monument 37243
- Wikidata
- Q31088768
Sources
References
- Newall, F (1964) 'Promontory fort, Dun na Faing'. Disc Exc Scot 1964, 13
- 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