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Islay, Port Ellen, The Ard
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2177
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2177 (2177)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kildalton And Oa
- National Grid reference
- NR 3649 4470
- Latitude
- 55.62431
- Longitude
- -6.18746
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 0, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.04 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Over-lapping (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- 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 Map Depiction (1878); Other (1959); Other (1978); Earthwork Survey (1979)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 2216
- National record
- record NR 34 SE 1; monument 37613
- Wikidata
- Q31089447
Sources
References
- Celoria, F (1959) Preliminary handbook to Islay, No. 7/52
- 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