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Islay, Beinn Sholaraidh
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2118
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2118 (2118)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilchoman
- National Grid reference
- NR 2228 7118
- Latitude
- 55.85363
- Longitude
- -6.43935
- Altitude
- 104 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
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.22 ha
- Footprint
- 3 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1979); Other (2007)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 2115
- National record
- record NR 27 SW 12; monument 37512
- Wikidata
- Q31088985
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