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Seil, Dun Aorain
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2546
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2546 (2546)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilbrandon And Kilchattan
- National Grid reference
- NM 7475 1717
- Latitude
- 56.29337
- Longitude
- -5.64174
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.15 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Finds
- pottery and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1871); Earthwork Survey (1888); Earthwork Survey (1966); Excavation (1970); Other (1971); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4178
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 851
- National record
- record NM 71 NW 1; monument 22613
- Wikidata
- Q31095198
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
- RCAHMS (1970) 'Dun Aorain, Kilbrandon and Kilchattan'. Disc Exc Scot 1970, 64
- 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