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Seil, Balvicar
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2544
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2544 (2544)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilbrandon And Kilchattan
- National Grid reference
- NM 7707 1643
- Latitude
- 56.28784
- Longitude
- -5.60371
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate, partial bivallate, and partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 3, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.36 ha
- Footprint
- 0.49 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and vitrification
- Entrance forms
- Other Forms (North east); Oblique (South west); Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, heather moorland, and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1967); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1971); Other (2006)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 848
- National record
- record NM 71 NE 7; monument 22610
- Wikidata
- Q31094261
Sources
References
- RCAHMS (1975) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Argyll: an inventory of the ancient monuments: volume 2: Lorn. HMSO: Edinburgh