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Killean
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2267
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2267 (2267)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Killean And Kilchenzie
- National Grid reference
- NR 7020 4477
- Latitude
- 55.64203
- Longitude
- -5.65334
- Altitude
- 75 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.05 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1867); Other (1943); Earthwork Survey (1966); Other (1972); Other (1978)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3179
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 3496
- National record
- record NR 74 SW 15; monument 38904
- Wikidata
- Q31094354
Sources
References
- RCAHMS (1971a) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Argyll: an inventory of the ancient monuments, volume 1: Kintyre. HMSO: Edinburgh