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Dun Iadain
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2596
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2596 (2596)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilmore And Kilbride
- National Grid reference
- NM 9112 2404
- Latitude
- 56.36248
- Longitude
- -5.38319
- Altitude
- 110 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.09 ha
- Footprint
- 0.23 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Oblique (South east); Simple Gap (East); Simple Gap (South east)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1967); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1969); Other (1976)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4304
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 1373
- National record
- record NM 92 SW 1; monument 23208
- Wikidata
- Q31095408
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