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Latitude: 56.0961 / 56°5'46"N
Longitude: -6.2033 / 6°12'11"W
OS Eastings: 138680
OS Northings: 697225
OS Grid: NR386972
Mapcode National: GBR CD2L.TMF
Mapcode Global: WGYFH.P18G
Entry Name: Loch an Sgoltaire,fortification,Colonsay
Scheduled Date: 4 October 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5072
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Secular: fort (non-prehistoric)
Location: Colonsay and Oronsay
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Kintyre and the Islands
Traditional County: Argyllshire
The monument consists of an artillery fortification of c.1615 standing on an island in Loch an Sgoltaire. It has an outer thick- walled enceinte, pentagonal in shape (some 33m E-W by 30m N-S) with rounded bastions at all but the W corner and a watergate between two drum-towers on the N. This encloses a roughly square inner ward, with drum-bastions at the four corners. In the centre is a l9th Century summer house. The scheduled area includes the entire island, as shown in red on the accompanying plan, but excludes the summer house.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as representing a rare example of a private artillery defence, erected in the early 17th century, which has the potential through excavation to shed further light on the military technology and material culture of its builders and inhabitants.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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