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Mull, Dun Haunn

Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2504

Location

Atlas number
SC2504 (2504)
Country
Scotland
Current county or unitary authority
Argyll & Bute
Historic county
Argyll
Parish, community, or townland
Kilninian And Kilmore
National Grid reference
NM 3333 4704
Latitude
56.53951
Longitude
-6.33954
Altitude
30 m

Form and condition

Type
promontory fort
Condition
Extant
Morphology
partial univallate
Complete rampart circuit
No
Number of ramparts
1
Ramparts by quadrant
NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
Possible original entrances
1
Breaks through the ramparts
2
Enclosed area
0.12 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
stone wall
Entrance forms
Simple Gap (South)

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
10582
HER
The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 398
National record
record NM 34 NW 2; monument 21810
Wikidata
Q31095130

Sources

References

  1. Betts, U V G (1959) 'Dun Haunn South'. Disc Exc Scot 1959, 9
  2. 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