Location
- Atlas number
- SC2220 (2220)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Killean And Kilchenzie
- National Grid reference
- NR 6812 2595
- Latitude
- 55.47228
- Longitude
- -5.67053
- Altitude
- 160 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 4, SE 3, SW 2, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.3 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.1 ha, 0.3 ha
- Footprint
- 0.68 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- AD 50–400 and undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1867); Other (1943); Other (1955); Earthwork Survey (1956); Other (1965); Other (1971); Other (1977); Other (2008)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3063
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 2961
- National record
- record NR 62 NE 13; monument 38369
- Wikidata
- Q31093331
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
- Robertson, A S (1950) 'Roman Coins found in Scotland'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 84 (1949-50), 137-69