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Barr An Longairt
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2477
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2477 (2477)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilfinan
- National Grid reference
- NR 9205 8135
- Latitude
- 55.97999
- Longitude
- -5.33477
- Altitude
- 55 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.07 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1865); Other (1937); Other (1942); Other (1972); Other (1975); Earthwork Survey (1985); Other (1994)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3547
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 4592
- National record
- record NR 98 SW 7; monument 40007
- Wikidata
- Q31095087
Sources
References
- Cowal Gazetteer (1967) Gazetteer of archaeological sites in Cowal: compiled by the Cowal Archaeological Society (p 46/3)
- Knight, G A F (1937) 'Antiquities in the neighbourhood of Otter Ferry, Loch Fyne'. Trans Glasgow Archaeol Soc, New Ser, 9.1 (1937),
- 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