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Mull, Sloc a' Mhuilt

Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2510

Location

Atlas number
SC2510 (2510)
Country
Scotland
Current county or unitary authority
Argyll & Bute
Historic county
Argyll
Parish, community, or townland
Kilfinichen And Kilvickeon
National Grid reference
NM 4281 1830
Latitude
56.28728
Longitude
-6.15754
Altitude
35 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
1
Breaks through the ramparts
1
Enclosed area
0.78 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
stone wall
Entrance forms
Simple Gap (North east)

Landscape

Topographic position
coastal promontory
Aspect
level
Land use
pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland

Dating

Dating
undated
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Investigations
Earthwork Survey (1973)

Identifiers

HER
The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 454
National record
record NM 41 NW 6; monument 21978
Wikidata
Q31093616

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