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Auchalick Wood
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2474
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2474 (2474)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilfinan
- National Grid reference
- NR 9200 7407
- Latitude
- 55.91467
- Longitude
- -5.32996
- Altitude
- 124 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.17 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1865); Other (1942); Other (1976); Earthwork Survey (1986); Other (1994)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 4501
- National record
- record NR 97 SW 16; monument 39916
- Wikidata
- Q31092025
Sources
References
- Cowal Gazetteer (1967) Gazetteer of archaeological sites in Cowal: compiled by the Cowal Archaeological Society, (p 61/3)
- Paterson, M (1970) Cowal before history (p 21)
- 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