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Auliston Point
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2531
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2531 (2531)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Morvern
- National Grid reference
- NM 5546 5793
- Latitude
- 56.64914
- Longitude
- -5.99087
- Altitude
- 15 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 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.01 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- heather moorland and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1974)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG263
- National record
- record NM 55 NE 1; monument 22306
- Wikidata
- Q31097834
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