Archaeology Notes

Event ID 674387

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NM54SE 10 5764 4359.

(NM 5764 4359) Fort (NR) (remains of)

OS 25" map, (1976)

Fort, Salen: On a rocky promontory overlooking the E shore of Salen Bay there are the wasted remains of a fort, consisting of a single wall which has enclosed an area measuring about 36m by 23m. All that now survives is a slight grass-covered band of rubble, in which a few outer facing-stones are visible intermittently, extending across the landward (E) part of the promontory and along the NE and SW sides; elsewhere all traces have disappeared. The position of the entrance is uncertain, but it was probably situated somewhere on the ESE. Ploughing has encroached over most of the interior.

RCAHMS 1980.

Fort.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (D W R) 1 May 1972.