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Mull, Torr A'Mhanaich
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2519
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2519 (2519)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilninian And Kilmore
- National Grid reference
- NM 4285 5192
- Latitude
- 56.58854
- Longitude
- -6.19000
- 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 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.05 ha
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1974); Earthwork Survey (1978); Other (2003); Other (2010)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 10559
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 577
- National record
- record NM 45 SW 17; monument 22102
- Wikidata
- Q31095191
Sources
References
- Baker, F (2010) 'Report on Archaeological Watching Briefs: Land to the west of Tigh na Mara, Dervaig, Isle of Mull'. FIRAT Archaeological Services Ltd
- 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