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Creag a' Chaisteal, Stillaig
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2472
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2472 (2472)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilfinan
- National Grid reference
- NR 9272 6822
- Latitude
- 55.86251
- Longitude
- -5.31398
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.02 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- after AD 800
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1865); Other (1942); Other (1972); Other (1976); Other (1988)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 4415
- National record
- record NR 96 NW 11; monument 39828
- Wikidata
- Q31091890
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