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Gigha, Dunan An T-Seasgain
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2235
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2235 (2235)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Gigha And Cara
- National Grid reference
- NR 6493 5067
- Latitude
- 55.69241
- Longitude
- -5.74194
- Altitude
- 45 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.04 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- 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); Earthwork Survey (1963); Other (1972); Other (1978); Other (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3227
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 3221
- National record
- record NR 65 SW 5; monument 38629
- Wikidata
- Q31093792
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