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Ardpatrick, Cnoc Breac
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2281
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2281 (2281)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- South Knapdale
- National Grid reference
- NR 7448 5980
- Latitude
- 55.77882
- Longitude
- -5.59786
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.35 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1868); Other (1943); 1st Identified Written Reference (1963); Other (1973); Other (1977); Earthwork Survey (1984)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 3535
- National record
- record NR 75 NW 1; monument 38944
- Wikidata
- Q31090107
Sources
References
- Campbell and Sandeman, M and M (1962) 'Mid Argyll: an archaeological survey', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 95 (1961-2), 1-125
- RCAHMS (1988) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Argyll: an inventory of the monuments volume 6: Mid-Argyll and Cowal, prehistoric and early historic monuments. HMSO: Edinburgh