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Islay, Borraichill Mor
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2139
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2139 (2139)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kildalton And Oa
- National Grid reference
- NR 3712 4675
- Latitude
- 55.64302
- Longitude
- -6.17944
- Altitude
- 155 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.76 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Postern Gate (East); Postern Gate (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878); Other (1935); Earthwork Survey (1975); Other (1978); Other (2007)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 2136
- National record
- record NR 34 NE 11; monument 37533
- Wikidata
- Q31089035
Sources
References
- Childe, V G (1935a) 'Notes on some duns in Islay'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 69 (1934-5), 81-4
- Childe, V G (1935b) The Prehistory of Scotland. Keegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & co
- 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