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Islay, Portintruan
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2148
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2148 (2148)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kildalton And Oa
- National Grid reference
- NR 3829 4517
- Latitude
- 55.62949
- Longitude
- -6.15940
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 0, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.05 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1964); Other (1978); Earthwork Survey (1980)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 2153
- National record
- record NR 34 NE 27; monument 37550
- Wikidata
- Q31089064
Sources
References
- Newall, F (1964) 'Duns or homesteads'. Disc Exc Scot 1964, 16
- 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