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Allt An Dubhair
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2478
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2478 (2478)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kirknichael Glassary
- National Grid reference
- NR 9477 9748
- Latitude
- 56.12585
- Longitude
- -5.30361
- Altitude
- 194 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1962); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1970); Earthwork Survey (1983); Other (2012)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 4616
- National record
- record NR 99 NW 4; monument 40031
- Wikidata
- Q31092283
Sources
References
- Campbell and Sandeman, M and M (1962) 'Mid Argyll: an archaeological survey', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 95 (1961-2), 1-125
- Campbell, M (1962) 'Allt an Dubhair', Disc Exc Scot 1962, 5
- 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