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Mull, Cillchriosd

Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2506

Location

Atlas number
SC2506 (2506)
Country
Scotland
Current county or unitary authority
Argyll & Bute
Historic county
Argyll
Parish, community, or townland
Kilninian And Kilmore
National Grid reference
NM 3737 5367
Latitude
56.60118
Longitude
-6.28075
Altitude
45 m

Form and condition

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

Landscape

Topographic position
knoll or outcrop
Aspect
level
Land use
pasture and heather moorland

Dating

Dating
undated
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Investigations
Earthwork Survey (1973); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1974)

Identifiers

HER
The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 420
National record
record NM 35 SE 17; monument 21832
Wikidata
Q31093469

Sources

References

  1. 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