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Hill Park

Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2552

Location

Atlas number
SC2552 (2552)
Country
Scotland
Current county or unitary authority
Argyll & Bute
Historic county
Argyll
Parish, community, or townland
Craignish
National Grid reference
NM 8294 0682
Latitude
56.20438
Longitude
-5.50118
Altitude
83 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
1
Enclosed area
0.06 ha
Enclosing works, as visible
stone wall and vitrification
Entrance forms
Simple Gap (South west)

Landscape

Topographic position
knoll or outcrop
Aspect
level
Land use
pasture and heather moorland

Dating

Dating
undated
Dating reliability
D - None

Interior and investigation

Investigations
Earthwork Survey (1984)

Identifiers

HER
The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 946
National record
record NM 80 NW 33; monument 22756
Wikidata
Q31094475

Sources

References

  1. RCAHMS (1988) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Argyll: an inventory of the monuments volume 6: Mid-Argyll and Cowal, prehistoric and early historic monuments. HMSO: Edinburgh