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Creag Aoil, Kames
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2561
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2561 (2561)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilninver And Kilmelford
- National Grid reference
- NM 8099 1139
- Latitude
- 56.24446
- Longitude
- -5.53633
- Altitude
- 15 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.04 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1967); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1970); Other (1975); Other (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3786
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 1070
- National record
- record NM 81 SW 7; monument 22880
- Wikidata
- Q31095282
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