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Islay, Port Ellen, Borraichill Mor
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2151
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2151 (2151)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kildalton And Oa
- National Grid reference
- NR 3691 4665
- Latitude
- 55.64201
- Longitude
- -6.18267
- Altitude
- 135 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
- 0.02 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1976); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1979); Earthwork Survey (1980)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 2156
- National record
- record NR 34 NE 3; monument 3755
- Wikidata
- Q31089090
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