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Mull, Cnoc na Sroine
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2350
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2350 (2350)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilninian And Kilmore
- National Grid reference
- NM 5553 4330
- Latitude
- 56.51806
- Longitude
- -5.97593
- Altitude
- 130 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.43 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.04 ha, 0.43 ha
- Footprint
- 0.44 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1875); Other (1882); Other (1934); Other (1942); Earthwork Survey (1959); Other (1972); Earthwork Survey (1974)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 663
- National record
- record NM 54 SE 2; monument 22283
- Wikidata
- Q31090846
Sources
References
- Duns, J (1883) 'Notes on North Mull', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 17 (1882-3), 79-89
- RCAHMS (1980) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Argyll: an inventory of the monuments volume 3: Mull, Tiree, Coll and Northern Argyll (excluding the early medieval and later monuments of Iona). HMSO: Edinburgh