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Dun Bhronaig
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2444
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2444 (2444)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- North Knapdale
- National Grid reference
- NR 7284 8655
- Latitude
- 56.01792
- Longitude
- -5.64641
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.08 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1924); Other (1957); Earthwork Survey (1959); Other (1963); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1973); Other (1977); Earthwork Survey (1982)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 3689
- National record
- record NR 78 NW 3; monument 39098
- Wikidata
- Q31090996
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