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Machrihanish
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2222
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2222 (2222)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Campbeltown
- National Grid reference
- NR 6348 2066
- Latitude
- 55.42263
- Longitude
- -5.73928
- Altitude
- 25 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1962); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1977)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 3022
- National record
- record NR 62 SW 6; monument 38430
- Wikidata
- Q31089753
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