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Kintraw
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2557
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2557 (2557)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilmartin
- National Grid reference
- NM 8321 0483
- Latitude
- 56.18665
- Longitude
- -5.49521
- Altitude
- 65 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
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.05 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and vitrification
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1982); Other (2003)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 1040
- National record
- record NM 80 SW 33; monument 22850
- Wikidata
- Q31094652
Sources
References
- 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