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Islay, Dun Nan Gall
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2169
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2169 (2169)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kildalton And Oa
- National Grid reference
- NR 4681 5582
- Latitude
- 55.72946
- Longitude
- -6.03425
- Altitude
- 14 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 3, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.07 ha
- Footprint
- 0.12 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and vitrification
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878); Other (1934); Other (1959); Earthwork Survey (1976); Other (1979); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5649
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 2628
- National record
- record NR 45 NE 1; monument 38034
- Wikidata
- Q31091487
Sources
References
- Celoria, F (1959) Preliminary handbook to Islay, 7/9
- Childe, V G (1935) 'Notes on some duns in Islay'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 69 (1934-5), 81-4
- Lamont, W (1959) 'From the Islay Archaeological Survey Group', Discovery Excav Scot 1959, 12
- 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