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Dun Skeig
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2268
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2268 (2268)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilcalmonell
- National Grid reference
- NR 7577 5721
- Latitude
- 55.75619
- Longitude
- -5.57520
- Altitude
- 140 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.34 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Over-lapping (North)
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 Map Depiction (1794); Other (1843); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1867); Other (1955); Earthwork Survey (1956); Other (1963); Other (1964); Other (1973); Other (1977)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2491
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 3517
- National record
- record NR 75 NE 1; monument 38925
- Wikidata
- Q31094366
Sources
References
- Feachem, R W 1963 Guide to Prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London (p 108)
- 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