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Tiree, Eilean na Ba
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2487
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2487 (2487)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tiree
- National Grid reference
- NL 9336 4006
- Latitude
- 56.45269
- Longitude
- -6.97893
- 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 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Footprint
- 1.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1903); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1924); Other (1972); Earthwork Survey (1975); Other (1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 6904
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 75
- National record
- record NL 94 SW 6; monument 21481
- Wikidata
- Q31095094
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