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Islay, Beinn a' Chaisteal,
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2128
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2128 (2128)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilchoman
- National Grid reference
- NR 2205 7118
- Latitude
- 55.85350
- Longitude
- -6.44301
- Altitude
- 125 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 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.3 ha
- Footprint
- 3.23 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, heather moorland, and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1965); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1978); Earthwork Survey (1979); Other (2007); Other (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 13213
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 2129 & 2116
- National record
- record NR 27 SW 5; monument 37526
- Wikidata
- Q31089887
Sources
References
- Newall, F (1965) 'Beinn a Chaisteil'. Disc Exc Scot 1965, 10
- 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