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Barr Lagan
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2475
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2475 (2475)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilfinan
- National Grid reference
- NR 9418 8223
- Latitude
- 55.98880
- Longitude
- -5.30137
- Altitude
- 150 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 3, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.43 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.32 ha, 0.43 ha
- Footprint
- 0.53 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Other (1937); Other (1942); Other (1960); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1965); Other (1972); Other (1974); Earthwork Survey (1985)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3502
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 4574
- National record
- record NR 98 SW 3; monument 39989
- Wikidata
- Q31095081
Sources
References
- Cowal Gazetteer (1967) Gazetteer of archaeological sites in Cowal: compiled by the Cowal Archaeological Society (p 46/6)
- Knight, G A F (1937) 'Antiquities in the neighbourhood of Otter Ferry, Loch Fyne'. Trans Glasgow Archaeol Soc, New Ser, 9.1 (1937), 21-2 illust
- Newall, F (1960) 'Barr Laggan'. Disc Exc Scot 1960, 13
- 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