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Dunan
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2180
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2180 (2180)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Southend
- National Grid reference
- NR 5930 1130
- Latitude
- 55.33667
- Longitude
- -5.79712
- Altitude
- 30 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 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
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1866); Other (1902); Earthwork Survey (1962); Other (1972); Other (1977)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3174
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 2812
- National record
- record NR 51 SE 2; monument 38219
- Wikidata
- Q31092068
Sources
References
- RCAHMS (1971) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Argyll: an inventory of the ancient monuments, volume 1: Kintyre. HMSO: Edinburgh