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Islay, Cnoc Eabriic
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2085
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2085 (2085)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Killarow And Kilmeny
- National Grid reference
- NR 2916 5544
- Latitude
- 55.71651
- Longitude
- -6.31413
- 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 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.09 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
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 (1973); Earthwork Survey (1976); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1979); Other (1992)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5422
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 1923
- National record
- record NR 25 NE 7; monument 37310
- Wikidata
- Q31089820
Sources
References
- 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
- Shanks, I D (1973) 'Laggan Point: dun ?'. Disc Exc Scot 1973, 7