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Glenehervie
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2261
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2261 (2261)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Southend
- National Grid reference
- NR 7398 1084
- Latitude
- 55.33952
- Longitude
- -5.56578
- Altitude
- 150 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
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.22 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- palisade and unfinished work
- Enclosing works, excavated
- unfinished work
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1955); Earthwork Survey (1956); Excavation (1965); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1977); Other (1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3618
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 3326
- National record
- record NR 71 SW 7; monument 38734
- Wikidata
- Q31093873
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