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Dunaverty Castle
Argyll & Bute, Scotland · Atlas SC4309
Location
- Atlas number
- SC4309 (4309)
- Country
- Scotland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Argyll & Bute
- Historic county
- Argyll
- Parish, community, or townland
- Southend
- National Grid reference
- NR 6881 0749
- Latitude
- 55.30715
- Longitude
- -5.64437
- Altitude
- 28 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.12 ha
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- Other
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1866); Earthwork Survey (1967); Other (1971); Other (1977)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- 3041
- HER
- The West of Scotland Archaeology Service 2894
- National record
- record NR 60 NE 4; monument 38302
- Wikidata
- Q31095458
Sources
References
- Alcock, L (1981) 'Early historic fortifications in Scotland'. In Guilbert, G (ed.) Hill-fort studies: essays for A H A Hogg. Leicester
- RCAHMS (1971) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Argyll: an inventory of the ancient monuments, volume 1: Kintyre. HMSO: Edinburgh