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Gometra, Dun Eiphinn
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2505
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2505 (2505)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilninian And Kilmore
- National Grid reference
- NM 3588 4027
- Latitude
- 56.48030
- Longitude
- -6.29133
- Altitude
- 17 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 0, NW 3
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.07 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1958); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1972); Earthwork Survey (1972); Other (1974)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 405
- National record
- record NM 34 SE 5; monument 21817
- Wikidata
- Q31093433
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