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Islay, Dun Bheolain
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2117
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2117 (2117)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilchoman
- National Grid reference
- NR 2102 6896
- Latitude
- 55.83301
- Longitude
- -6.45714
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 2.33 ha
- Footprint
- 2.9 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Over-lapping (South east); Oblique (South east); 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 (1960); Other (1963); Earthwork Survey (1979); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1979); Other (2007); Other (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 13214
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 2016
- National record
- record NR 26 NW 6; monument 37412
- Wikidata
- Q31089838
Sources
References
- Celoria, F (1960) Islay gazetteer
- Newall, F (1963) 'Forts and enclosures'. Disc Exc Scot 1963, 13
- 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