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Bute, Aultmore Burn
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2473
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2473 (2473)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Buteshire
- Parish, community, or townland
- North Bute
- National Grid reference
- NR 9946 7127
- Latitude
- 55.89281
- Longitude
- -5.20860
- Altitude
- 55 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.02 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1846); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1864); Earthwork Survey (1893); Other (1973); Other (2009)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 4491
- National record
- record NR 97 SE 7; monument 39906
- Wikidata
- Q31091966
Sources
References
- Geddes and Hale, G F and A G C (2010) RCAHMS: The Archaeological Landscape of Bute, Edinburgh
- Hewison, Rev. J K (1892-93) 'On the Prehistoric forts of the Island of Bute'. PSAS 27 (1893-3), 281-93
- Wilson, J (1848) Guide to Bute