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Luing, Leccamore
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2548
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2548 (2548)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilbrandon And Kilchattan
- National Grid reference
- NM 7507 1078
- Latitude
- 56.23623
- Longitude
- -5.63115
- Altitude
- 85 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 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.13 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1871); Earthwork Survey (1888); Excavation (1892); Other (1964); Earthwork Survey (1966); Other (1971)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2439
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 867
- National record
- record NM 71 SE 2; monument 22629
- Wikidata
- Q31095220
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
- Macnaughton, A (1891) 'Notice of excavations in the South Fort, Island of Luing, Argyleshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 25 (1890-91), 476-83
- Macnaughton, A (1893) 'Notes on further excavations of the South Fort, Luing, Argyllshire'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 27 (1892-93), 375-80
- 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