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Druim An Achanarnaich
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2543
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2543 (2543)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Craignish
- National Grid reference
- NM 7696 0275
- Latitude
- 56.16512
- Longitude
- -5.59397
- Altitude
- 65 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 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex
- Entrance forms
- Hornwork (North east); Simple Gap (North east); Blocked (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1871); Other (1947); Other (1963); Other (1970); Earthwork Survey (1983)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 824
- National record
- record NM 70 SE 8; monument 22586
- Wikidata
- Q31094221
Sources
References
- Campbell and Sandeman, M and M (1962) 'Mid Argyll: an archaeological survey', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 95 (1961-2), 1-125
- Graham, A (1948) 'Some antiquities in the parish of Craignish'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 82 (1947-8), 52-60
- 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