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Mull, Rubha Nan Oirean
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2507
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2507 (2507)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilninian And Kilmore
- National Grid reference
- NM 3509 5138
- Latitude
- 56.57939
- Longitude
- -6.31544
- Altitude
- 27 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 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.04 ha
- Footprint
- 0.08 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
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 421
- National record
- record NM 35 SE 18; monument 21833
- Wikidata
- Q31093502
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