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Dun Mhuirich
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2448
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2448 (2448)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- North Knapdale
- National Grid reference
- NR 7228 8441
- Latitude
- 55.99846
- Longitude
- -5.65356
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 3, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.12 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1869); Other (1898); Other (1955); Other (1957); Earthwork Survey (1959); Other (1963); Other (1973); Other (1977); Earthwork Survey (1982); Excavation (2012)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 238
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 3713
- National record
- record NR 78 SW 3; monument 39122
- Wikidata
- Q31094699
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