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Tiree, Dun Nan Gall
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2488
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2488 (2488)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tiree
- National Grid reference
- NL 9350 4086
- Latitude
- 56.45994
- Longitude
- -6.97761
- Altitude
- 30 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 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.13 ha
- Footprint
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Over-lapping (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, heather moorland, and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1878); Other (1903); Other (1963); Other (1972); Earthwork Survey (1975); Other (1997)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 6903
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 77
- National record
- record NL 94 SW 8; monument 21483
- Wikidata
- Q31095100
Sources
References
- Beveridge, E (1903) Coll and Tiree: their prehistoric forts and ecclesiastical antiquities with notices of ancient remains in the Treshnish Isles. Edinburgh
- MacKie, E W (1963) 'Tiree. Dun Mhor Vaul; Dun Beg Vaul; Dun Boraige Mor; Dun Hiader; Dun Ibrig; Dun Mor a' Chaolais; Dun Nan Gall'. Disc Exc Scot 1963, 21
- 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