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Islay, Bridgend
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2155
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2155 (2155)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Killarow And Kilmeny
- National Grid reference
- NR 3378 6227
- Latitude
- 55.78033
- Longitude
- -6.24742
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Cropmark
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 2, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 1.2 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- arable
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1977); Earthwork Survey (1981); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5598
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 2362
- National record
- record NR 36 SW 24; monument 37762
- Wikidata
- Q31089967
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