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Achnaclach
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2209
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2209 (2209)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Campbeltown
- National Grid reference
- NR 6878 1545
- Latitude
- 55.37848
- Longitude
- -5.65140
- Altitude
- 170 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.23 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1956); Other (1975); Other (1977); Other (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3692
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 2929
- National record
- record NR 61 NE 5; monument 38337
- Wikidata
- Q31093083
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