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Dun Mor
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2282
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2282 (2282)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- South Knapdale
- National Grid reference
- NR 7925 6192
- Latitude
- 55.80003
- Longitude
- -5.52367
- Altitude
- 90 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 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.09 ha, 0.2 ha
- Footprint
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1867); Other (1943); Earthwork Survey (1959); Other (1963); Other (1973); Other (1977); Earthwork Survey (1982)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 3568
- National record
- record NR 76 SE 1; monument 38977
- Wikidata
- Q31090256
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