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Mull, Creag a' Chaisteal
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2501
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2501 (2501)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilninian And Kilmore
- National Grid reference
- NM 3586 4959
- Latitude
- 56.56378
- Longitude
- -6.30112
- Altitude
- 20 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 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.18 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, heather moorland, and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- postholes and roundhouses
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1959); Earthwork Survey (1959); Excavation (1964); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1972); Earthwork Survey (1978)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 373
- National record
- record NM 34 NE 1; monument 21785
- Wikidata
- Q31093256
Sources
References
- Betts, U V G (1959) 'Creag a' Chaisteil'. Disc Exc Scot 1959, 10
- Betts, U V G (1964) 'Creag a' Casteil, Calgary, Isle of Mull'. Disc Exc Scot 1964, 18
- 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