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Colonsay, Dun Gallain
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2166
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2166 (2166)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Colonsay And Oronsay
- National Grid reference
- NR 3486 9314
- Latitude
- 56.05747
- Longitude
- -6.26056
- Altitude
- 35 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.05 ha
- Footprint
- 0.12 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878); Other (1944); Other (1974); Earthwork Survey (1976); Other (1994)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5969
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 2572
- National record
- record NR 39 SW 1; monument 37978
- Wikidata
- Q31091319
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