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Caisteal na Sidhe
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2471
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2471 (2471)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilfinan
- National Grid reference
- NR 9632 6914
- Latitude
- 55.87230
- Longitude
- -5.25725
- Altitude
- 90 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 0.34 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- 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 (1942); Other (1967); Other (1973); Other (1985)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 4405
- National record
- record NR 96 NE 2; monument 39818
- Wikidata
- Q31091835
Sources
References
- Childe and Graham, V G and A (1943) 'Some notable prehistoric and medieval monuments recently examined by The Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 77 (1943), 31-49
- 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