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Coll, Dun Morbhaidh
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2496
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2496 (2496)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Coll
- National Grid reference
- NM 2345 6331
- Latitude
- 56.67952
- Longitude
- -6.51711
- 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 0, SE 1, SW 0, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.04 ha
- Footprint
- 0.19 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
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
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1900); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1972); Earthwork Survey (1975); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 297
- National record
- record NM 26 SW 12; monument 21708
- Wikidata
- Q31093046
Sources
References
- Beveridge, E (1903) Coll and Tiree: their prehistoric forts and ecclesiastical antiquities with notices of ancient remains in the Treshnish Isles. Edinburgh
- Holley, M W (1995) 'Surface finds from Duns (Coll parish)'. Disc Exc Scot 1995, 61
- Moore, H & Wilson, G (2002) Report on a Coastal Zone Assessment Survey on the Islands of Coll and Tiree. EASE Archaeology
- 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