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Islay, Fang a' Chaisteil
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2167
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2167 (2167)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kildalton And Oa
- National Grid reference
- NR 4302 4661
- Latitude
- 55.64492
- Longitude
- -6.08581
- Altitude
- 5 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.03 ha
- Footprint
- 0.07 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1964); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1979); Earthwork Survey (1979)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 2593
- National record
- record NR 44 NW 21; monument 37999
- Wikidata
- Q31089270
Sources
References
- Newall, F (1964) 'Duns or homesteads', Discovery Excav Scot 1964, 16
- 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