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An Fang, Craignish Point
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2449
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2449 (2449)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Craignish
- National Grid reference
- NR 7562 9925
- Latitude
- 56.13311
- Longitude
- -5.61256
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.26 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- after AD 800
- Dating evidence
- Other
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1947); Other (1963); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1970); Other (1977); Other (1982)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 3720
- National record
- record NR 79 NE 1; monument 39129
- Wikidata
- Q31091279
Sources
References
- Campbell and Sandeman, M and M (1962) 'Mid Argyll: an archaeological survey', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 95 (1961-2), 1-125
- Graham, A (1948) 'Some antiquities in the parish of Craignish', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 82 (1947-8), 52-60
- 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