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Eilean An Duin, Craignish
Argyll & Bute, Scotland · Atlas SC2541
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2541 (2541)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Craignish
- National Grid reference
- NM 7926 0796
- Latitude
- 56.21291
- Longitude
- -5.56133
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and vitrification
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- postholes
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1871); Earthwork Survey (1888); Other (1963); Other (1970); Earthwork Survey (1978); Excavation (1983); Other (1984)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 775
- National record
- record NM 70 NE 1; monument 22536
- Wikidata
- Q31094158
Sources
References
- Campbell and Sandeman, M and M (1962) 'Mid Argyll: an archaeological survey', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 95 (1961-2), 1-125
- Christison, D (1889) The duns and forts of Lorne, Nether Lochaber, and the neighbourhood'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 23 (1888-9), 368-432
- Nicke, M R (1985) 'Eilean An Duin'. Disc Exc Scot 1985, 34-5
- Nieke and Boyd, M R and W E (1987) 'Eilean an Duin, Criagnish, Mid-Argyll'. Glasgow Archaeol J 14 (1987), 48-57
- RCAHMS (1988) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Argyll: an inventory of the monuments volume 6: Mid-Argyll and Cowal, prehistoric and early historic monuments. HMSO: Edinburgh