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Kerrera, The Little Horse Shoe
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2582
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2582 (2582)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilmore And Kilbride
- National Grid reference
- NM 8175 2710
- Latitude
- 56.38569
- Longitude
- -5.53711
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.08 ha
- Footprint
- 0.14 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1969); Earthwork Survey (1970); Other (1979); Other (1995); Other (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4210
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 1139
- National record
- record NM 82 NW 4; monument 22949
- Wikidata
- Q31095343
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