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Islay, Loch Nan Clach
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2175
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2175 (2175)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kildalton And Oa
- National Grid reference
- NR 4312 5107
- Latitude
- 55.68494
- Longitude
- -6.08840
- Altitude
- 130 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (South west)
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 Written Reference (1964); Earthwork Survey (1977); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1979)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 2687
- National record
- record NR 45 SW 5; monument 38094
- Wikidata
- Q31089393
Sources
References
- Newall, F (1964) 'Hill forts', Discovery Excav Scot 1964, 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