Conglomerate portion of a "vitrified fort", reddish brown on one side, and dark grey on the other. [CW [OPS Move] 29/6/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Conglomerate portion of a "vitrified fort", reddish brown on one side, and dark grey on the other. [CW [OPS Move] 29/6/2017]
Geographical reference: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; Scotland Argyll And Bute Ardchattan And Muckairn Dun Mac Sniachan Beregonium
Cultural groups: English
Person: Field collector Charles Cotterill Lynam; PRM source Charles Cotterill Lynam
Date
Date collected: By 1900
Acquisition information: Donated: 1900
Materials and processes: Material Quartz Stone, Material Mica Stone, Material Mineral, Material Wood Plant
Dimensions: Depth: max 102 mm, Width: max 92 mm, Length: max 107 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1900.18.6
Research and responses: This object is likely to have been recovered from the 'vitrified fort' of Dun Mac Sniachan [NM 9035 3810], also known as Dun Mac Uisneachan or Dunmacsniachan, located in the parish of Ardchattan And Muckairn. The site is described on the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland [RCAHMS] archaeological monuments database [Canmore] as lying "on a steep-sided, isolated ridge lying between the village of Benderloch and the NE shore of Ardmucknish Bay". At the site there "are the remains of a series of defensive works comprising two successive forts and a dun". The forts and dun are recorded under site no. NM93NW 2 and Canmore ID no. 23234. The record can be accessed online at http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk. [MN 09/07/2009]
Beregonium is a 'Pictish city'. The RCAHMS records that "The Pictish city of Beregonium is said to have been situated between Dun Mac Sniachan and Dun Bhaile an Righe...The RCAHMS states that the spurious name 'Beregonium', a mis-reading of Ptolemy's 'Rerigonium', was mistakenly applied by Hector Boece in his 'Scotorum Historiae' ". For more details see Canmore ID no. 23247. The record can be accessed online at http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk. [MN 09/07/2009]

Search terms: Dwelling, Specimen, Building Part

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