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Dun Mor, Dunchraigaig
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2479
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2479 (2479)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilmartin
- National Grid reference
- NR 8413 9722
- Latitude
- 56.11883
- Longitude
- -5.47425
- Altitude
- 210 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.23 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1961); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1970); Other (1977); Earthwork Survey (1982); Other (2008)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 4047
- National record
- record NR 89 NW 17; monument 39457
- Wikidata
- Q31092322
Sources
References
- Campbell and Sandeman, M and M (1962) 'Mid Argyll: an archaeological survey', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 95 (1961-2), 1-125
- 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