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Mull, Torr A'Chlachain
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2517
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2517 (2517)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilninian And Kilmore
- National Grid reference
- NM 4294 5000
- Latitude
- 56.57138
- Longitude
- -6.18663
- Altitude
- 55 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 1, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, commercial forestry, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1959); Earthwork Survey (1972); Other (1972); Other (1985)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4359
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 572
- National record
- record NM 45 SW 12; monument 22097
- Wikidata
- Q31095183
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