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Colonsay, Dun Meadhonach
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2183
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2183 (2183)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Colonsay And Oronsay
- National Grid reference
- NR 4145 9999
- Latitude
- 56.12246
- Longitude
- -6.16165
- Altitude
- 45 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
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.08 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1923); Other (1944); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1974); Earthwork Survey (1976)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 2797
- National record
- record NR 49 NW 4; monument 38204
- Wikidata
- Q31089566
Sources
References
- Grieve, S (1923) The book of Colonsay and Oronsay: forty-four years of research and discovery in early Scoto-Irish, Norse and Danish history, 2v. Edinburgh
- Piggott and Piggott, S and C M (1948) 'Field work on Colonsay and Islay, 1944-45'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 80
- (1945-6), 83-103
- 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