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Ranachan Hill
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2219
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2219 (2219)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Campbeltown
- National Grid reference
- NR 6889 2500
- Latitude
- 55.46413
- Longitude
- -5.65759
- Altitude
- 215 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 3, SW 3, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 6
- Enclosed area
- 0.54 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.07 ha, 0.4 ha, 0.54 ha
- Footprint
- 0.58 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North); Simple Gap (West); Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (South west)
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 Map Depiction (1867); Other (1955); Earthwork Survey (1956); Earthwork Survey (1965); Earthwork Survey (1968); Other (1971); Other (1977); Other (2008)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3064
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 2960
- National record
- record NR 62 NE 12; monument 38368
- Wikidata
- Q31093202
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