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Dun na Cuaiche
Argyll & Bute, Scotland ยท Atlas SC2606
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2606 (2606)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Inverary
- National Grid reference
- NN 1003 1013
- Latitude
- 56.24566
- Longitude
- -5.06755
- Altitude
- 245 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 1, NW 1
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 2
- Enclosed area
- 0.2 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west); Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- woodland, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- after AD 800
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- rectangular stone structures
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1843); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1870); Other (1963); Other (1973); Earthwork Survey (1988)
Identifiers
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 1735
- National record
- record NN 11 SW 2; monument 23635
- Wikidata
- Q31095199
Sources
References
- Campbell and Sandeman, M and M (1962) 'Mid Argyll: an archaeological survey', Proc Soc Antiq Scot 95 (1961-2), 1-125