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Kilmichael Glassary
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2465
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2465 (2465)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilmichael Glassary
- National Grid reference
- NR 8552 9460
- Latitude
- 56.09595
- Longitude
- -5.44983
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.07 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1972); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1973); Other (1977); Other (1987)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 4138
- National record
- record NR 89 SE 16; monument 39548
- Wikidata
- Q31091716
Sources
References
- 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
- Scott and Scott, J G & Mrs (1972) 'Kilmichael Glassary: fort'. Disc Exc Scot 1972, 9