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Jura, Creag An Dunain
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2182
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2182 (2182)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Jura
- National Grid reference
- NR 5112 6475
- Latitude
- 55.81174
- Longitude
- -5.97394
- Altitude
- 65 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 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.06 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, commercial forestry, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1931); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1978); Earthwork Survey (1980)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 2843
- National record
- record NR 56 SW 7; monument 38250
- Wikidata
- Q31089538
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
- Rideout, E H (1932) 'Standing stones and other antiquities in Jura'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 66 (1931-2), 146-51