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Tiree, Hynish
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2486
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2486 (2486)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tiree
- National Grid reference
- NL 9866 3910
- Latitude
- 56.44751
- Longitude
- -6.89215
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 1.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1903); Other (1960); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1972); Other (1973); Other (2002)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 7
- National record
- record NL 93 NE 6; monument 21413
- Wikidata
- Q31092436
Sources
References
- Beveridge, E (1903) Coll and Tiree: their prehistoric forts and ecclesiastical antiquities with notices of ancient remains in the Treshnish Isles. Edinburgh
- Cregeen, E R (1960) 'Dun Hianish'. Disc Exc Scot 1960, 23
- Moore, H and Wilson, G (2002) 'Report on a Coastal Zone Assessment Survey on the Islands of Coll and Tiree'. EASE Archaeology
- 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