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Dunstaffnage Bay, Eilean Mor
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2588
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2588 (2588)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilmore And Kilbride
- National Grid reference
- NM 8870 3473
- Latitude
- 56.45728
- Longitude
- -5.43091
- Altitude
- 20 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 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.08 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1870); Earthwork Survey (1888); Other (1940); Other (1970); Other (1971); Other (1977)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3944
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 1215
- National record
- record NM 83 SE 1; monument 23025
- Wikidata
- Q31095379
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