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Ardnamurchan, Sanna, Rubha An Duin Bhain
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2523
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2523 (2523)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ardnamurchan
- National Grid reference
- NM 4485 7038
- Latitude
- 56.75503
- Longitude
- -6.17581
- Altitude
- 16 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.29 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
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
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1967); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1970); Earthwork Survey (1972); Other (1995); Other (2000)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 6172
- HER
- Highland HER MHG1
- National record
- record NM 47 SW 1; monument 22141
- Wikidata
- Q31097892
Sources
References
- Marshall, D N (1967) 'Ardnamurchan, Dun Ban'. Disc Exc Scot 1967, 9
- 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