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Bruach An Drumein, Poltalloch
Argyll & Bute, Scotland · Atlas SC2461
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2461 (2461)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilmartin
- National Grid reference
- NR 8203 9719
- Latitude
- 56.11760
- Longitude
- -5.50793
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort and level-terrain fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.5 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and arable
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50, AD 400–800, and after AD 800
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and roundhouses
- Finds
- metal and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1959); Excavation (1960); Excavation (1961); Excavation (1962)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 4041
- National record
- record NR 89 NW 11; monument 39451
- Wikidata
- Q31091538
Sources
References
- Abernethy, D 2009 Bruach An Druimein, Poltalloch, Argyll: excavations directed by the late Eric Cregeen, 1960-62. Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports 27
- Cregeen, E R (1960) 'Poltalloch'. Disc Exc Scot 1960, 10-11
- Cregeen, E R (1962) 'Poltalloch'. Disc Exc Scot 1962, 9-10
- Cregeen and Cregeen, E R and S (1961) 'Poltalloch'. Disc Exc Scot 1961, 10-11
- 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