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Lismore, Kilcheran
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2586
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2586 (2586)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lismore And Appin
- National Grid reference
- NM 8266 3877
- Latitude
- 56.49076
- Longitude
- -5.53210
- Altitude
- 25 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 0, SW 0, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.45 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures and curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1968); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1971)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 1200
- National record
- record NM 83 NW 18; monument 23010
- Wikidata
- Q31095127
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