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Ardanstur
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2560
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2560 (2560)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilninver And Kilmelford
- National Grid reference
- NM 8244 1330
- Latitude
- 56.26226
- Longitude
- -5.51455
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.05 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1967); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1970); Other (1975)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3791
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 1069
- National record
- record NM 81 SW 6; monument 22879
- Wikidata
- Q31095267
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