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Carradale Point
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2452
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2452 (2452)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Saddell And Skipness
- National Grid reference
- NR 8151 3649
- Latitude
- 55.57298
- Longitude
- -5.46742
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.1 ha, 0.5 ha
- Footprint
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and vitrification
- Also recorded
- annex and multi-period enclosure system
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, heather moorland, and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1794); Other (1843); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1867); Earthwork Survey (1894); Other (1955); Earthwork Survey (1960); Other (1961); Earthwork Survey (1965); Other (1978)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2180
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 3812
- National record
- record NR 83 NW 1; monument 39221
- Wikidata
- Q31094780
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1898) Early fortifications in Scotland: motes, camps and forts: the Rhind lectures in archaeology for 1894. Blackwood and Sons: Edinburgh and LOndon
- NSA (1834-1845) The new statistical account of Scotland by the ministers of the respective parishes under the superintendence of a committee of the society for the benefit of the sons and daughters of the clergy.
- RCAHMS (1971) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Argyll: an inventory of the ancient monuments, volume 1: Kintyre. HMSO: Edinburgh
- Stat Acct (date) Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn up from the Communications of the Ministers of the Different Parishes (Sinclair, J ed), 1791-99