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Jura, Dunan An Raoil
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2181
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2181 (2181)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Jura
- National Grid reference
- NR 5237 6494
- Latitude
- 55.81408
- Longitude
- -5.95421
- Altitude
- 20 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
- 0.02 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1978); Earthwork Survey (1979); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 6250
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 2838
- National record
- record NR 56 SW 2; monument 38245
- Wikidata
- Q31092207
Sources
References
- 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