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Dunollie Castle
Argyll & Bute, Scotland · Atlas SC2661
Location
- Atlas number
- SC2661 (2661)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Kilmore And Kilbride
- National Grid reference
- NM 8521 3148
- Latitude
- 56.42659
- Longitude
- -5.48469
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Footprint
- 0.24 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- annex
Landscape
- Topographic position
- knoll or outcrop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- parkland
Dating
- Dating
- AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual, C14, and Other
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1870); Other (1931); Excavation (1978); Earthwork Survey (1979); Other (2002)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 293
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 1217
- National record
- record NM 83 SE 11; monument 23027
- Wikidata
- Q31095456
Sources
References
- Alcock and Alcock, L and E A (1988) 'Reconnaissance excavations on Early Historic fortifications and other royal sites in Scotland, 1974-84: 2, Excavations at Dunollie Castle, Oban, Argyll, 1978'. Proc Soc Antiq Scot 117 (1987), 119-47
- 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