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Luing, Ballycastle
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2547
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2547 (2547)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilbrandon And Kilchattan
- National Grid reference
- NM 7523 1205
- Latitude
- 56.24770
- Longitude
- -5.62965
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.04 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1871); Earthwork Survey (1888); Earthwork Survey (1950); Other (1964); Other (1966); Other (1971)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2440
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 856
- National record
- record NM 71 SE 1; monument 22618
- Wikidata
- Q31095208
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 (1975) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Argyll: an inventory of the ancient monuments: volume 2: Lorn. HMSO: Edinburgh