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Glen Cruitten, Dunans
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2563
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2563 (2563)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilmore And Kilbride
- National Grid reference
- NM 8690 2966
- Latitude
- 56.41100
- Longitude
- -5.45593
- Altitude
- 65 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour 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 1, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.14 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
- Water source
- pool
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1870); Earthwork Survey (1888); Other (1964); Other (1967); Other (1978)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4305
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 1095
- National record
- record NM 82 NE 3; monument 22905
- Wikidata
- Q31095301
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