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Kildonan Point
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2262
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2262 (2262)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Campbeltown
- National Grid reference
- NR 7824 2715
- Latitude
- 55.48774
- Longitude
- -5.51171
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.37 ha
- Footprint
- 0.46 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1866); Other (1955); Earthwork Survey (1960); Other (1971); Other (1977); Other (2004); Other (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3110
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 3332
- National record
- record NR 72 NE 12; monument 38740
- Wikidata
- Q31093922
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
- Cressey, M. & Badger, S. (2004) 'Coastal Zone Assessment Survey: Kintyre & Isle of Arran', CFA Archaeology Ltd,