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Seil, Cnoc An Tighe Mhoir
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2545
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2545 (2545)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilbrandon And Kilchattan
- National Grid reference
- NM 7569 1634
- Latitude
- 56.28638
- Longitude
- -5.62588
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble and vitrification
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1871); Earthwork Survey (1888); Earthwork Survey (1966); Other (1968); Other (1971); Other (2000)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 850
- National record
- record NM 71 NE 9; monument 22612
- Wikidata
- Q31094292
Sources
References
- Christison, D (1889) The duns and forts of Lorne, Nether Lochaber, and the neighbourhood'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 23 (1888-9), 368-432
- Gilmour and Henderson, S and J (2000) 'Cnoc an Tighe Mhoir, Seil, Argyll and Bute (Kilbrandon & Kilchattan parish), vitrified fort'. Disc Exc Scot, New Ser 1 (2000), 16
- Nisbet, H C (1975) 'A geological approach to vitrified forts, part II: bedrock and building stone'. Sci & Archaeol 15 (1975), 3-16
- 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