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Islay, Mullach Ban, An Dun
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2171
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2171 (2171)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kildalton And Oa
- National Grid reference
- NR 4674 5133
- Latitude
- 55.68918
- Longitude
- -6.03121
- Altitude
- 55 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.13 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
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 (2007)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 2646
- National record
- record NR 45 SE 13; monument 38053
- Wikidata
- Q31089331
Sources
References
- Celoria, F (1959) Preliminary handbook to Islay, 7/42
- Childe, V G (1935) 'Notes on some duns in Islay'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 69 (1934-5), 81-4
- 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