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Dun Creagach, Connel
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2601
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2601 (2601)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilmore And Kilbride
- National Grid reference
- NM 9075 3347
- Latitude
- 56.44694
- Longitude
- -5.39669
- Altitude
- 60 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.08 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1871); Other (1888); Earthwork Survey (1969); Other (1971); Other (1976)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3837
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 1447
- National record
- record NM 93 SW 6; monument 23282
- Wikidata
- Q31095434
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