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Islay, Am Burg, Coul
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2067
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2067 (2067)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilchoman
- National Grid reference
- NR 1911 6492
- Latitude
- 55.79572
- Longitude
- -6.48337
- Altitude
- 30 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
- 1.5 ha
- Footprint
- 1.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1772); Other (1961); Other (1978); Earthwork Survey (1979)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 1883
- National record
- record NR 16 SE 1; monument 37270
- Wikidata
- Q31088904
Sources
References
- Newall and Newall, F and H E (1961) 'Reidh an Coul Buirg', Disc Exc Scot 1961, 19-20
- Pennant, T (1776) A Tour in Scotland; MDCCLXXII,, 2 London
- 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