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An Dun, Glenamachrie
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2595
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2595 (2595)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ardchattan And Muckairn
- National Grid reference
- NM 9286 2836
- Latitude
- 56.40199
- Longitude
- -5.35848
- Altitude
- 70 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
- 0.05 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1871); Other (1888); Excavation (1967); Earthwork Survey (1968); Other (1969); Other (1972); Other (1977)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3910
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 1366
- National record
- record NM 92 NW 3; monument 23201
- Wikidata
- Q31095395
Sources
References
- Betts, U V G (1969) 'An Dun, Glen Lonan, Taynuilt'. Disc Exc Scot 1969, 9
- 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