Barranlongairt
Fort (Prehistoric)
Site Name Barranlongairt
Classification Fort (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Auchnaha
Canmore ID 40006
Site Number NR98SW 6
NGR NR 9215 8158
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/40006
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilfinan
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR98SW 6 9215 8158.
(NR 9214 8158) Fort (NR)
OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., (1900)
The same ridge which carries fort NR98SW 7 rises to a second but lower peak which is also fortified. The crest has been defined by a built stone rampart following its contours, but the work is much dilapidated and only on the E can a few stones of the outer face be recognised. The inner face is not exposed and the very uneven interior is overgrown with bracken. The entrance was probably on the N, but here a rough sheepfold has been built out of the debris from the masonry. The area enclosed was probably about 60' x 40'.
M Paterson 1970; G A F Knight 1937.
An oval fort, measuring internally c. 42.0m N-S x c. 19.0m, within a wall up to 2.5m thick. Large outer facing stones exist on the N and W, but on the E where the wall follows the top of a rock face, there is little trace. The entrance probably existed on the S, but identification is difficult as an old sheepfold utilises the fort wall on this side. The interior is featureless.
The construction and position of this fort is similar to that of NR98SW 7.
Revised at 1:10560.
Visited by OS (D W R) 2 November 1972.
Field Visit (15 September 1942)
This site was included within the RCAHMS Emergency Survey (1942-3), an unpublished rescue project. Site descriptions, organised by county, vary from short notes to lengthy and full descriptions and are available to view online with contemporary sketches and photographs. The original typescripts, manuscripts, notebooks and photographs can also be consulted in the RCAHMS Search Room.
Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 10 December 2014.
Field Visit (June 1985)
Situated on a rocky ridge 1.6km S of Ballimore and 250m N of the fort (NR98SW 7), there are the remains of a small single-walled fort measuring about 45m by 18m internally. Except on the E, where it has been removed by stone-robbing, the wall survives as a band of rubble in which occasional stretches of outer facing-stones can still be seen, as shown on plan (RCAHMS 1988). The entrance probably lay at the S end of the fort, immediately to the SE of a ruinous modern enclosure.
Visited June 1985
RCAHMS 1988
Field Visit (June 1985)
Situated on a rocky ridge 1.6km S of Ballimore and 250m N of the fort (NR98SW 7), there are the remains of a small single-walled fort measuring about 45m by 18m internally. Except on the E, where it has been removed by stone-robbing, the wall survives as a band of rubble in which occasional stretches of outer facing-stones can still be seen, as shown on plan (RCAHMS 1988). The entrance probably lay at the S end of the fort, immediately to the SE of a ruinous modern enclosure.
Visited June 1985
RCAHMS 1988
Note (31 October 2014 - 23 May 2016)
A small heavily-robbed fortification is situated on a low ridge. Oval on plan, it measures about 45m from NNE to SSW by 18m transversely (0.06ha) within a single wall which has been largely reduced to a band of rubble with a few runs of outer face at the N end. The entrance was probably at the S end. Apart from a relatively modern enclosure at the S end, the interior is featureless.
Information from An Atlas of Hillforts of Great Britain and Ireland – 23 May 2016. Atlas of Hillforts SC2476
