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Colonsay, Dun Uragaig
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2161
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2161 (2161)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Colonsay And Oronsay
- National Grid reference
- NR 3816 9826
- Latitude
- 56.10516
- Longitude
- -6.21273
- Altitude
- 30 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
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.82 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1944); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1974); Earthwork Survey (1976); Other (1991)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5077
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 2421
- National record
- record NR 39 NE 1; monument 37824
- Wikidata
- Q31090048
Sources
References
- 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