1900.18.18

Collection type

Object

Description

Conglomerate portion of a "vitrified fort" [FB 5/9/2017]

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 150 mm, Width: max 155 mm, Length: max 240 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1900.18.18

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