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Cnoc Araich
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2196
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2196 (2196)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Southend
- National Grid reference
- NR 6925 0965
- Latitude
- 55.32665
- Longitude
- -5.63922
- Altitude
- 85 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 3, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 4
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 9
- Enclosed area
- 2.53 ha
- Footprint
- 4 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches and gang working
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (South); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1955); Earthwork Survey (1956); Other (1965); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1977); Other (1996)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3648
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 2888
- National record
- record NR 60 NE 2; monument 38296
- Wikidata
- Q31092502
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