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Garraron, Dun An Garbh-Sroine
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2551
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2551 (2551)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Craignish
- National Grid reference
- NM 8030 0893
- Latitude
- 56.22209
- Longitude
- -5.54540
- Altitude
- 30 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 1, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.18 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- after AD 800
- Dating evidence
- Morphology/Earthwork/Typology
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1843); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1871); Earthwork Survey (1888); Other (1947); Other (1963); Other (1971); Earthwork Survey (1984)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 929
- National record
- record NM 80 NW 18; monument 22739
- Wikidata
- Q31094417
Sources
References
- Campbell and Sandeman, M and M (1962) 'Mid Argyll: an archaeological survey', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 95 (1961-2), 1-125
- Christison, D (1889) The duns and forts of Lorne, Nether Lochaber, and the neighbourhood'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 23 (1888-9), 368-432
- Graham, A (1948) 'Some antiquities in the parish of Craignish'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 82 (1947-8), 52-60
- NSA (1834-1845) The new statistical account of Scotland by the ministers of the respective parishes under the superintendence of a committee of the society for the benefit of the sons and daughters of the clergy, 15v Edinburgh
- RCAHMS (1992) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Argyll: an inventory of the monuments volume 7: Mid-Argyll and Cowal, medieval and later historic monuments. HMSO: Edinburgh