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Eilean A'Ghaill, Sound of Arisaig
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2540
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2540 (2540)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Inverness-shire
- Parish, community, or townland
- Arisaig And Moidart
- National Grid reference
- NM 6269 8253
- Latitude
- 56.87335
- Longitude
- -5.89604
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.09 ha
- Footprint
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and vitrification
- Also recorded
- annex
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory and knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- coastal grassland
- Water source
- well or cistern
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1905); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1970)
Identifiers
- HER
- Highland HER MHG4156
- National record
- record NM 68 SW 2; monument 22533
- Wikidata
- Q31097880
Sources
References
- M'Hardy, A B (1906) 'On vitrified forts, with results of experiments as to the probable manner in which their vitrification may have been produced'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 40 (1905-6), 136-50