Home / Scotland / Argyll & Bute / Sithean Buidhe
Sithean Buidhe
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2292
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2292 (2292)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- South Knapdale
- National Grid reference
- NR 7210 7432
- Latitude
- 55.90790
- Longitude
- -5.64791
- Altitude
- 141 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 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 7 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heather moorland
- Water source
- pool
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1963); Other (1973); Earthwork Survey (1983)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 3652
- National record
- record NR 77 SW 5; monument 39061
- Wikidata
- Q31090724
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