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Latitude: 55.4351 / 55°26'6"N
Longitude: -5.5789 / 5°34'43"W
OS Eastings: 173691
OS Northings: 621516
OS Grid: NR736215
Mapcode National: IRL Y3.G62S
Mapcode Global: GBR DGLB.Z83
Entry Name: Baraskomill, fort and shielings 600m NW of
Scheduled Date: 8 April 1975
Last Amended: 21 December 1995
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM3636
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: fort (includes hill and promontory fort); Secular: shieling
Location: Campbeltown
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: South Kintyre
Traditional County: Argyllshire
The monument is a fort located on the summit of a hill. Just to the E of the fort are two shielings. The N, E and SW sides of the hill are steep, but access to the SE and W is comparatively easy. The fort measures 87m x 61m internally and is defined by a single stone wall which survives in part as a low grass grown bank or terrace. The entrance which is on the SSE is flanked on its SW side by a rocky scarp. The interior of the fort is featureless.
Situated on a natural terrace which cuts across the E end of the hill are two shielings. The best preserved is 3.4m in diameter and consists of a turf bank 1.7m wide and 0.6m high. The second shieling is about 2m in diameter.
The area to be scheduled measures 150m E-W by 80m N-S to include the fort, the shielings and an area around the fort in which traces of activities associated with is use may survive.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The fort is of national importance for its potential contribution to the understanding of prehistoric defensive architecture. The shielings are well preserved examples of a typical but not fully understood form of minor rural Medieval/Post Medieval building.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS record the site as NR72SW 22.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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