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Ardanstur
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2559
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2559 (2559)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilninver And Kilmelford
- National Grid reference
- NM 8225 1313
- Latitude
- 56.26065
- Longitude
- -5.51747
- Altitude
- 35 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.17 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory and knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1967); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1970); Earthwork Survey (1971); Other (1975)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3792
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 1067
- National record
- record NM 81 SW 4; monument 22877
- Wikidata
- Q31095259
Sources
References
- 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