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Lismore, Dun Cuilein
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2593
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2593 (2593)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lismore And Appin
- National Grid reference
- NM 8250 4018
- Latitude
- 56.50333
- Longitude
- -5.53587
- Altitude
- 45 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
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.03 ha
- Footprint
- 0.06 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1871); Other (1888); Earthwork Survey (1943); Other (1957); Earthwork Survey (1968); Other (1971); Other (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 237
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 1294
- National record
- record NM 84 SW 2; monument 23106
- Wikidata
- Q31095381
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