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Arran, Lochranza, Torr An T' Sean Chaisteal
North Ayrshire, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2470
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2470 (2470)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- North Ayrshire
- Historic county
- Buteshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilmory
- National Grid reference
- NR 9277 5029
- Latitude
- 55.70169
- Longitude
- -5.29955
- Altitude
- 179 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
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 Map Depiction (1864); Other (1910); Other (1953); Other (1977)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 411
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 4395
- National record
- record NR 95 SW 2; monument 39808
- Wikidata
- Q31096063
Sources
References
- Balfour, J A ed (1910) The book of Arran, Archaeology. Hugh Hopkins: Glasgow
- McLellan, R (1970) Isle of Arran (p 77-8)