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Mull, Dun An Fheurain
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2497
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2497 (2497)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilfinichen And Kilvickeon
- National Grid reference
- NM 3706 1863
- Latitude
- 56.28708
- Longitude
- -6.25054
- Altitude
- 27 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 2, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Footprint
- 0.14 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West); Simple Gap (South west)
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
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1959); Earthwork Survey (1972); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1972); Other (1973); Other (2003)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 7765
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 328
- National record
- record NM 31 NE 4; monument 21740
- Wikidata
- Q31095109
Sources
References
- 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