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Coll, Ballyhaugh, An Caisteal
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2492
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2492 (2492)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Coll
- National Grid reference
- NM 1718 5815
- Latitude
- 56.62957
- Longitude
- -6.61345
- Altitude
- 34 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.06 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1901); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1972); Earthwork Survey (1975)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 152
- National record
- record NM 15 NE 2; monument 21558
- Wikidata
- Q31092832
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