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Islay, Dun An Rubha Bhuidhe
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2174
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2174 (2174)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kildalton And Oa
- National Grid reference
- NR 4661 5407
- Latitude
- 55.71367
- Longitude
- -6.03581
- Altitude
- 5 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
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.02 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west); Simple Gap (North)
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 (1934); Other (1959); Earthwork Survey (1977); Other (1979); Other (1993)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5658
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 2677
- National record
- record NR 45 SE 6; monument 38084
- Wikidata
- Q31091779
Sources
References
- Celoria, F (1959) Preliminary handbook to Islay, 7/11
- 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