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Latitude: 56.0209 / 56°1'15"N
Longitude: -6.2473 / 6°14'50"W
OS Eastings: 135426
OS Northings: 689027
OS Grid: NR354890
Mapcode National: GBR BDYS.Z3J
Mapcode Global: WGYFP.0XCP
Entry Name: Dun Domhnuill,fort,Oronsay
Scheduled Date: 14 October 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5140
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort)
Location: Colonsay and Oronsay
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Kintyre and the Islands
Traditional County: Argyllshire
The fort is situated on a detached rocky ridge on the south-east flank of Beinn Oronsay. It measures 68m E-W by 24m N-S, over a wall up to 3.5m thick. On the north-east are foundations of two oval huts, built over the collapsed fort wall; and west of these a basin (0.5m across and 0.3m deep) has been carved into a rock outcrop. The area to be scheduled includes the entire fort and the rocky outcrop on which it stands, as shown in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance because of the information that it provides, and has the potential to provide through archaeological excavation, for settlement, economy, and material culture (particularly defensive and domestic architecture) in the Iron Age (c. 600 BC ' c. AD 400).
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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