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Iona, Dun Cul Bhuirg
Argyll & Bute, Scotland · Atlas SC2494
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2494 (2494)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilfinichen And Kilvickeon
- National Grid reference
- NM 2649 2462
- Latitude
- 56.33476
- Longitude
- -6.42699
- Altitude
- 51 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.12 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50 and AD 50–400
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery, metal, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1850); Excavation (1957); Excavation (1958); Excavation (1959); Excavation (1968); Other (1972); Earthwork Survey (1979); Other (1996); Other (1998)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 7761
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 232
- National record
- record NM 22 SE 3; monument 21638
- Wikidata
- Q31095102
Sources
References
- Burley and Fowler, E and P J (1958) 'Iona'. Disc Exc Scot 1958, 14-15
- Graham, H D 1850 Antiquities of lona. London
- 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
- RCAHMS (1982) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Argyll: an inventory of the monuments volume 4: Iona. HMSO: Edinburgh
- Reece, R 1973 'Recent work on lona', Scot Archaeol Forum 5 (1973), 36-46
- Rees, T (1996) 'Iona (Kilfinichen and Kilvickeon parish), multi-period archaeological survey'. Disc Exc Scot 1996, 19
- Ritchie and Lane, J N G and A M (1980) 'Dun Cul Bhuirg, Iona, Argyll'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 110 (1978-80), 209-29
- Thomas and Megaw, A C and J V S (1957) 'Dun Cul Bhuirg, Iona'. Disc Exc Scot 1957, 10-11
- Thomas, A C (1959) 'Iona'. Disc Exc Scot 1959, 10
- Topping, P G (1985) 'Later prehistoric pottery from Dun Cul Bhuirg, Iona, Argyll'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 115 (1985), 199-209
- Topping, P G (1987) 'Typology and chronology in the later prehistoric pottery assemblages of the Western Isles', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 117 (1987), 67-84