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Tiree, Dun Balephetrish
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2489
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2489 (2489)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Tiree
- National Grid reference
- NM 0150 4729
- Latitude
- 56.52263
- Longitude
- -6.85562
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- 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
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.09 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, heather moorland, and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1877); Other (1903); Other (1972); Earthwork Survey (1974)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 99
- National record
- record NM 04 NW 12; monument 21505
- Wikidata
- Q31092668
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