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Dun Uabairtich
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2565
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2565 (2565)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilmore And Kilbride
- National Grid reference
- NM 8324 2800
- Latitude
- 56.39445
- Longitude
- -5.51376
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 1, NW 0
- 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 east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop and cliff, plateau edge, or scarp
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1965); Other (1966); Earthwork Survey (1970); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1976); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4196
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 1128
- National record
- record NM 82 NW 11; monument 22938
- Wikidata
- Q31095320
Sources
References
- Kay, M (1965) 'Dun Uamphuirt, above Port na Cuile, Gallanach'. Disc Exc Scot 1965, 5
- Leckie, C (1966) 'Dun Uamphuirt'. Disc Exc Scot 1966, 12
- 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