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Sron Uamha
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2197
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2197 (2197)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Southend
- National Grid reference
- NR 6119 0603
- Latitude
- 55.29034
- Longitude
- -5.76290
- Altitude
- 75 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 3, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.03 ha
- Footprint
- 0.22 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Over-lapping (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- 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 (1792); Other (1843); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1866); Earthwork Survey (1902); Other (1955); Earthwork Survey (1960); Other (1964); Other (1977); Other (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3748
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 2900
- National record
- record NR 60 NW 1; monument 38308
- Wikidata
- Q31092573
Sources
References
- Fleming, J 1903 Notices of three Stone Forts in Kintyre. Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 37 (1902-3), 360-5
- NSA (1834-1845) The new statistical account of Scotland by the ministers of the respective parishes under the superintendence of a committee of the society for the benefit of the sons and daughters of the clergy.
- 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
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99