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Latitude: 55.4665 / 55°27'59"N
Longitude: -5.6673 / 5°40'2"W
OS Eastings: 168288
OS Northings: 625304
OS Grid: NR682253
Mapcode National: GBR DGD8.6WV
Mapcode Global: WH0LX.XVHN
Entry Name: Balnagleck, dun 350m NE of
Scheduled Date: 1 August 1975
Last Amended: 15 November 1996
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM3696
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Prehistoric domestic and defensive: dun
Location: Killean and Kilchenzie
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: South Kintyre
Traditional County: Argyllshire
The monument comprises a later prehistoric or early historic dun which is situated on a level promontory on the hillside 350m NE of Balnagleck farm.
Roughly oval in plan, the dun measures approximately 25m E-W by 20m N-S. The walls consist of low banks 2m wide and 0.5m high, with occasional very large boulders. An entrance to the E is marked by three large stone blocks, defining an entrance passage 1.5m wide and at least 2m long.
The monument is being rescheduled because the original scheduling was wrongly located. The area now to be scheduled is circular and measures 65m in diameter, to include the dun and an area around it in which associated remains are likely to survive, as marked in red on the accompanying map extract.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance because it is a well-preserved example of a typical later prehistoric or early historic enclosed settlement which has the potential to considerably increase our understanding of later prehistoric or early historic domestic life and defensive architecture.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS record the site as NR62NE 23.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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