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Ulva, Ormaig
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2512
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2512 (2512)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilninian And Kilmore
- National Grid reference
- NM 4272 3826
- Latitude
- 56.46607
- Longitude
- -6.17859
- Altitude
- 15 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 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.06 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1972); Earthwork Survey (1972); Other (1998)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 505
- National record
- record NM 43 NW 8; monument 22029
- Wikidata
- Q31093696
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
- Rees, T (1998) 'Ulva, Glenstrae and Glencreran Estates (Kilninian & Kilmore; Ardchattan & Muckairn; Lismore & Appin parishes), survey'. Disc Exc Scot 1998, 21