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Barr Mor
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2594
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2594 (2594)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilchrenan And Dalavich
- National Grid reference
- NM 9778 1056
- Latitude
- 56.24446
- Longitude
- -5.26523
- Altitude
- 50 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.04 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1871); Earthwork Survey (1888); Earthwork Survey (1971); Other (1971); Other (1978)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4159
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 1330
- National record
- record NM 91 SE 5; monument 23165
- Wikidata
- Q31095385
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