Location
- Atlas number
- SC2185 (2185)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Jura
- National Grid reference
- NR 5785 7305
- Latitude
- 55.88956
- Longitude
- -5.87420
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 2, NW 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 5
- Enclosed area
- 0.05 ha
- Footprint
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Passage-way/Corridor (North east); Simple Gap (West)
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 Written Reference (1974); Earthwork Survey (1976); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1978)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 14524
- National record
- record NR 57 SE 4; monument 83073
- Wikidata
- Q31089644
Sources
References
- Jarvis, M C (1974) 'Jura, An Dunan: fort', Discovery Excav Scot 1974, 13
- 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