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Ballywilline Hill
Fort (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Ballywilline Hill
Classification Fort (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 38808
Site Number NR72SW 26
NGR NR 7170 2386
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/38808
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Campbeltown
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR72SW 26 7170 2386
(NR 7170 2387) Fort (NR)
OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., (1924)
The rocky summit of Ballywilline Hill (216m OD) is occupied by a fort which is protected by steep slopes on all sides except the N and NE. The fort measures 53.5m by 30.5m within a single stone wall originally 3.0m in thickness, but now reduced for the most part to a band of debris in which several stones of the inner and outer face are visible. The entrance is situated on the NE, but the gap has been enlarged to a width of 7.5m. Much of the interior is taken up by extensive outcrops of bare rock, the highest of which is crowned by an Ordnance Survey triangulation station; the intervening grassy spaces are featureless.
RCAHMS 1971, visited 1960.
The fort is as described and illustrated by RCAHMS (1971).
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (JB) 3 November 1977.
Note (13 October 2014 - 23 May 2016)
This fort encloses the rocky summit of Ballywilline Hill. Oval on plan, it measures about 53m from ENE to WSW by 30m transversely (0.13ha) within a wall about 3m in thickness, though for the most part it is reduced to a band of rubble in which a few short runs of outer-facing stones are visible. A gap on the NE marks the position of the entrance, though it has been widened more recently. The interior, which is largely bare outcrop, is featureless.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 23 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2264
