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Caisteal Nan Con
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2529
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2529 (2529)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Morvern
- National Grid reference
- NM 5839 4864
- Latitude
- 56.56740
- Longitude
- -5.93452
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.08 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1943); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1970); Earthwork Survey (1974); Other (1995)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 6286
- HER
- Highland HER MHG262
- National record
- record NM 54 NE 3; monument 22258
- Wikidata
- Q31097957
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