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Mull, EileAn Nan Damh
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2499
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2499 (2499)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilfinichen And Kilvickeon
- National Grid reference
- NM 3961 2400
- Latitude
- 56.33660
- Longitude
- -6.21476
- Altitude
- 10 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 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.05 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1973); Other (1973); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1976); Other (1981); Other (2003)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 10628
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 338
- National record
- record NM 32 SE 10; monument 21750
- Wikidata
- Q31095115
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