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Westport
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2221
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2221 (2221)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Killean And Kilchenzie
- National Grid reference
- NR 6550 2673
- Latitude
- 55.47803
- Longitude
- -5.71255
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.14 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Entrance forms
- Over-lapping (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1962); Other (1973); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1977)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3274
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 2970
- National record
- record NR 62 NE 21; monument 38378
- Wikidata
- Q31093379
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