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Islay, Sron Dubh
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2125
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2125 (2125)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kildalton And Oa
- National Grid reference
- NR 3774 4514
- Latitude
- 55.62893
- Longitude
- -6.16808
- Altitude
- 5 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 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.11 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
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 (1976); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1979); Earthwork Survey (1979)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 2168
- National record
- record NR 34 NE 40; monument 37565
- Wikidata
- Q31089012
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 (1976) 'Islay', Disc Exc Scot 1976, 7