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Islay, Ard Fhraoch
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2069
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2069 (2069)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kildalton And Oa
- National Grid reference
- NR 2950 4790
- Latitude
- 55.64915
- Longitude
- -6.30130
- Altitude
- 20 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
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.37 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1957); Other (1978); Earthwork Survey (1981)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 1886
- National record
- record NR 24 NE 2; monument 37273
- Wikidata
- Q31088929
Sources
References
- Lamont, W (1959) 'From the Islay Archaeological Survey Group', Disc Exc Scot 1959, 16
- 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