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Ardanstur
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2558
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2558 (2558)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilninver And Kilmelford
- National Grid reference
- NM 8221 1368
- Latitude
- 56.26556
- Longitude
- -5.51857
- Altitude
- 50 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
- 0.05 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, pasture, and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- quarry hollows
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1871); Earthwork Survey (1888); Earthwork Survey (1967); Other (1970); Other (1975)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3796
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 1066
- National record
- record NM 81 SW 3; monument 22876
- Wikidata
- Q31095258
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
- 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