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Cnocan Dubha
Highland, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2605
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2605 (2605)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Highland
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Lismore And Appin
- National Grid reference
- NN 0799 5851
- Latitude
- 56.67885
- Longitude
- -5.13601
- Altitude
- 20 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 2, NW 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosing works, as visible
- rubble
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (West)
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
- Earthwork Survey (1971); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1972); Other (1979)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 4221
- HER
- Highland HER MHG345
- National record
- record NN 05 NE 6; monument 23549
- Wikidata
- Q31098048
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