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Dun Chonallaich
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2553
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2553 (2553)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilmartin
- National Grid reference
- NM 8544 0365
- Latitude
- 56.17708
- Longitude
- -5.45840
- Altitude
- 259 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 1 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.05 ha, 1 ha
- Footprint
- 1 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (West)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1872); Earthwork Survey (1888); Other (1955); Other (1963); Other (1970); Earthwork Survey (1983); Earthwork Survey (1984); Other (1992)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 5473
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 962
- National record
- record NM 80 SE 15; monument 22772
- Wikidata
- Q31095255
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
- 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
- Ritchie, J N G (1983) 'Dun Chonallaich (Kilmartin p), fort, gaming-board'. Disc Exc Scot 1983, 24