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Islay, Dun Nosebridge
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2153
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2153 (2153)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Killarow And Kilmeny
- National Grid reference
- NR 3713 6011
- Latitude
- 55.76275
- Longitude
- -6.19210
- Altitude
- 90 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 3, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.01 ha
- Footprint
- 0.45 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system and ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
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 (1934); Other (1942); Geophysical Survey (1961); Other (1977); Earthwork Survey (1979); Other (2007)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3936
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 2324
- National record
- record NR 36 SE 10; monument 37721
- Wikidata
- Q31089940
Sources
References
- Carter, W I (1961) 'Neriby', Disc Exc Scot 1961, 23-4
- Childe, V G (1935) 'Notes on some duns in Islay'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 69 (1934-5), 81-4
- 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