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Ronachan Bay

Dun (Prehistoric)

Site Name Ronachan Bay

Classification Dun (Prehistoric)

Alternative Name(s) Allt An Sionnach

Canmore ID 38964

Site Number NR75SW 7

NGR NR 7407 5479

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Argyll And Bute
  • Parish Kilcalmonell
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Argyll And Bute
  • Former County Argyll

Archaeology Notes

NR75SW 7 7407 5479.

(NR 7408 5480) Fort (NR)

OS 6" map, (1924)

This fort, occupying the summit of an isolated rocky knoll, measures 24.5m x 18.5m within a 6.1m thick wall, now reduced to a grass-covered stony bank, not more than 1.0m high. A number of facing stones are visible in situ as shown in plan. A subsidiary crest line, traceable all round the knoll except on the W, may represent the edge of a terrace made as a seating for the outer face of the wall. The exceptional wall thickness would allow for mural chambers and galleries but no trace of such structures are now visible. The entrance is in the E. A D-shaped enclosure, formed by a low bank, and measuring 27.5m x 9m internally is situated at the base of the knoll, immediately SE of the entrance. Without excavation it is impossible to assess its relationship to the fort.

RCAHMS 1971, visited 1961.

A dun, measuring 17.5m NE-SW by 9.0m within a wall up to 4.0m thick. Otherwise as described by RCAHMS.

Surveyed at 1:10,000

Visited by OS (D W R) 13 August 1973.

Dun: NR 740 547. From mole disturbance on interior of dun, bones, mica schist polisher (or lid?) and translucent green glass dumb-bell bead.

L Masters and E Peltenburg 1979.

Activities

Field Visit (8 June 1943)

This site was included within the RCAHMS Emergency Survey (1942-3), an unpublished rescue project.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.

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