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Islay, Sgairail
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2158
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2158 (2158)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Killarow And Kilmeny
- National Grid reference
- NR 3498 7534
- Latitude
- 55.89805
- Longitude
- -6.24112
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory 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
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1977); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1978)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 2384
- National record
- record NR 37 NW 1; monument 37785
- Wikidata
- Q31089190
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.