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Latitude: 56.3915 / 56°23'29"N
Longitude: -5.5066 / 5°30'23"W
OS Eastings: 183658
OS Northings: 727656
OS Grid: NM836276
Mapcode National: GBR DCST.NFH
Mapcode Global: WH0GK.DM01
Entry Name: Gallanach Beg,dun 30m N of
Scheduled Date: 9 November 1992
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5440
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: dun
Location: Kilmore and Kilbride
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Oban South and the Isles
Traditional County: Argyllshire
This Iron Age fortification is situated on the SE flank of a rocky terrace overlooking the farmstead of Gallanach Beg.
Subcircular on plan, it measures approximately 5m in diameter within a low grass-covered stony bank (2m in thickness and 0.4m in height). There is no obvious entrance. An estate map describes the site as a fort. A Bronze Age cist was found nearby in 1897.
The area to be scheduled is oval on plan and measures 65m from WNW to ESE by 40m transversely to include the dun and an adjacent terrace which may contain the remains of associated activity, as marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance, despite the slight nature of its visible remains, because it is the only 'inland' later prehistoric settlement within Glenshellach and because of its potential to provide information about later prehistoric social organisation and society, in particular through its relationship with other nearby later prehistoric duns and forts, all of which are coastal.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
NM82NW 38.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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