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Dun Mac Sniachan
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2597
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2597 (2597)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ardchattan And Muckairn
- National Grid reference
- NM 9032 3822
- Latitude
- 56.48930
- Longitude
- -5.40748
- Altitude
- 40 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort and multiple enclosure
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 2, SW 2, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.75 ha
- Enclosure areas
- 0.08 ha, 0.75 ha
- Footprint
- 0.8 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall and vitrification
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall and vitrification
- Also recorded
- multi-period enclosure system
Landscape
- Topographic position
- ridge
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- rectangular structures
- Finds
- metal, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1772); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1871); Excavation (1873); Other (1888); Earthwork Survey (1958); Other (1961); Other (1968); Earthwork Survey (1969); Other (1971); Other (2013)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 2179
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 1399
- National record
- record NM 93 NW 2; monument 23234
- Wikidata
- Q31095421
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
- Feachem, R W (1963) Guide to prehistoric Scotland. Batsford: London
- Nisbet, H C (1974) 'A geological approach to vitrified forts, part I: the archaeological and scientific background'. Sci & Archaeol 12 (1974), 3-12
- Nisbet, H C (1975) 'A geological approach to vitrified forts, part II: bedrock and building stone'. Sci & Archaeol 15 (1975), 11
- Pennant, T A Tour in Scotland Vol2
- 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
- Smith, R Angus (1872a) 'Descriptive List of Antiquities near Loch Etive, Argyllshire, consisting of Vitrified Forts, Cairns, Circles, Crannogs, &c.,; with some Remarks on the Growth of Peat.'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 9 (1870-72), 81-106
- Smith, R Angus (1872b) 'Descriptive List of Antiquities near Loch Etive.'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 9 (1870-72), 396-418
- Smith, R A (1874) 'Descriptive list of antiquities near Loch Etive. Part III'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 10 (1872-74), 78-80
- Smith, R Angus (1876) 'Descriptive List of Antiquities near Loch Etive. Part IV.'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 11 (1874-76), 298-305
- Smith, R Angus (1878) 'Descriptive List of Antiquities near Loch Etive. - No. 5. Plan of Dun-Mac Uisneachan.'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 12 (1876-78), 13-19