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Mull, Dun na Muirgheidh
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2511
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2511 (2511)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilfinichen And Kilvickeon
- National Grid reference
- NM 4127 2363
- Latitude
- 56.33419
- Longitude
- -6.18762
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 4
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 4, SW 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.04 ha
- Footprint
- 0.12 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Blocked (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, heather moorland, and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1875); Other (1943); Earthwork Survey (1959); Other (1972); Earthwork Survey (1973); Other (2003); Other (2011)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 10627
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 479
- National record
- record NM 42 SW 2; monument 22003
- Wikidata
- Q31095139
Sources
References
- Pennyghael in the Past Historical Archive (2011) 'Dun na Muirgheidh, Kilpatrick, Argyll and Bute (Kilfinichen and Kilvkeon parish), measured survey'. Disc Exc Scot, New ser 12 (2011), 38
- 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