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Dun Mhic Raonuill
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2585
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2585 (2585)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilninver And Kilmelford
- National Grid reference
- NM 8143 2307
- Latitude
- 56.34941
- Longitude
- -5.53892
- Altitude
- 10 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 2, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.6 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory and knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1871); 1st Identified Written Reference (1888); Earthwork Survey (1966); Other (1969); Other (1977)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4058
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 1182
- National record
- record NM 82 SW 6; monument 22992
- Wikidata
- Q31095368
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