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Islay, The Oa, Dun Mor Ghil
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2071
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2071 (2071)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kildalton And Oa
- National Grid reference
- NR 2737 4477
- Latitude
- 55.61991
- Longitude
- -6.33195
- Altitude
- 50 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 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
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1964); Earthwork Survey (1980)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 1896
- National record
- record NR 24 SE 14; monument 37283
- Wikidata
- Q31088954
Sources
References
- Newall, F (1964) 'Refuge site, Dun Mor Giol'. Disc Exc Scot 1964, 13
- 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