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Kildalloig
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2236
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2236 (2236)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Campbeltown
- National Grid reference
- NR 7456 1849
- Latitude
- 55.40839
- Longitude
- -5.56282
- Altitude
- 120 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 3, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Footprint
- 0.36 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1955); Earthwork Survey (1956); Other (1965); Other (1977); Other (1994)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3718
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 3299
- National record
- record NR 71 NW 10; monument 38707
- Wikidata
- Q31093835
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