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Tiree, Dun na Cleite
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2485
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2485 (2485)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tiree
- National Grid reference
- NL 9740 3850
- Latitude
- 56.44133
- Longitude
- -6.91182
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 1, NW 3
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.72 ha
- Footprint
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, heather moorland, and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878); Other (1903); Other (1972); Earthwork Survey (1977)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 6
- National record
- record NL 93 NE 5; monument 21412
- Wikidata
- Q31092372
Sources
References
- Beveridge, E (1903) Coll and Tiree: their prehistoric forts and ecclesiastical antiquities with notices of ancient remains in the Treshnish Isles. Edinburgh
- RCAHMS (1980) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Argyll: an inventory of the monuments volume 3: Mull, Tiree, Coll and Northern Argyll (excluding the early medieval and later monuments of Iona). HMSO: Edinburgh