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Gigha, Dun Chibhich
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2227
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2227 (2227)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Killean And Kilchenzie
- National Grid reference
- NR 6451 5007
- Latitude
- 55.68683
- Longitude
- -5.74809
- Altitude
- 55 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.05 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1869); Other (1939); Earthwork Survey (1963); Other (1972); Other (1978); Other (1993); Other (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3230
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 3220
- National record
- record NR 65 SW 4; monument 38628
- Wikidata
- Q31093657
Sources
References
- Anderson, R S G (1939) The antiquities of Gigha: a survey and guide. Newton Stewart
- Hood, F (1994) 'Survey of Gigha', Glasgow Archaeol Soc Bull, vol.33 (Autumn 1994)
- 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