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Islay, Dun Cheapasaidh Mor
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2152
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2152 (2152)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Killarrow And Kilmeny
- National Grid reference
- NR 3867 6654
- Latitude
- 55.82120
- Longitude
- -6.17379
- Altitude
- 105 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.06 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878); Other (1945); Earthwork Survey (1976); Other (1978); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 2313
- National record
- record NR 36 NE 8; monument 37710
- Wikidata
- Q31089108
Sources
References
- Childe, V G (1935) 'Notes on some duns in Islay'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 69 (1934-5), 81-4
- Piggott and Piggott, S and C M (1946) 'Field work on Colonsay and Islay, 1944-45'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 80 (1945-6), 83-103
- 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