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Mull, Dun Haunn
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2503
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2503 (2503)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilninian And Kilmore
- National Grid reference
- NM 3343 4749
- Latitude
- 56.54360
- Longitude
- -6.33838
- Altitude
- 40 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.03 ha
- Footprint
- 0.05 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1959); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1972); Earthwork Survey (1974); Other (2003)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 10581
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 397
- National record
- record NM 34 NW 1; monument 21809
- Wikidata
- Q31095128
Sources
References
- Betts, U V G (1959) 'Dun Haunn North'. Disc Exc Scot 1959, 9
- 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