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Eilean Uillne
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2532
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2532 (2532)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Morvern
- National Grid reference
- NM 5452 5658
- Latitude
- 56.63655
- Longitude
- -6.00488
- Altitude
- 5 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
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.23 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
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
- Earthwork Survey (1974); Other (2003)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 7779
- HER
- Highland HER MHG272
- National record
- record NM 55 NW 5; monument 22321
- Wikidata
- Q31097968
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