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Colonsay, Meall Lamalum
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2162
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2162 (2162)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Colonsay And Oronsay
- National Grid reference
- NR 3683 9699
- Latitude
- 56.09312
- Longitude
- -6.23276
- Altitude
- 35 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 2, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 1.33 ha
- Footprint
- 1.68 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South 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 (1981)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 2424
- National record
- record NR 39 NE 12; monument 37827
- Wikidata
- Q31089245
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