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Islay, Rhinns Point, An Dun
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2066
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2066 (2066)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilchoman
- National Grid reference
- NR 1791 5118
- Latitude
- 55.67194
- Longitude
- -6.48827
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- 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
- 0.78 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1876); Other (1945); Other (1975); Other (1978)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 1873
- National record
- record NR 15 SE 2; monument 37260
- Wikidata
- Q31088873
Sources
References
- Name Book, Ordnance Survey Object Name Books (6 inch and 1/2500 scale); available http://www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk/; Argyll, No.34, p 271
- Piggott and Piggott, S and C M (1946) 'Field work on Colonsay and Islay, 1944-45', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 80 (1945-6), 83-103
- 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