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Dun Buidhe
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2454
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2454 (2454)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- North Knapdale
- National Grid reference
- NR 8018 8934
- Latitude
- 56.04636
- Longitude
- -5.53118
- Altitude
- 185 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.06 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1963); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1973); Other (1977); Other (1986); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 4001
- National record
- record NR 88 NW 1; monument 39411
- Wikidata
- Q31091405
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
- Regan, R (2005) 'North Knapdale Forest (North Knapdale parish), survey'. Disc Exc Scot 6 (2005), 37.