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Freestone Hill
Kilkenny, Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR0678
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0678 (678)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Kilkenny
- Historic county
- Kilkenny
- Parish, community, or townland
- Freestone Hill
- Latitude
- 52.65410
- Longitude
- -7.13052
- Altitude
- 134 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 1.37 ha
- Footprint
- 1.52 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (East)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC and 800–400 BC
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Finds
- pottery, metal, animal bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); Earthwork Survey (1906); Geophysical Survey (2014); Excavation (1948-1949)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database KK020-018002
- National record
- record KK 020
- Wikidata
- Q31077852
Sources
References
- Bateson, D. 1973. Roman material from Ireland: a reconsideration. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 73C, 21 _ 97.
- Henderson, J. 1988. Glass production and Bronze Age Europe. Antiquity (62). 435 _ 451.
- Ó Floinn, R. 2000. Freestone Hill, Co. Kilkenny: a re-assessment. In Smyth, A. (ed. ) Seanachas: Studies in Early and Medieval Irish Archaeology, History and Literature in Honor of Francis J. Byrne. Four Courts Press, Dublin. 12 _ 29.
- Raftery, B. 1969. Freestone Hill, Co. Kilkenny: an Iron Age and Bronze Age cairn: excavation Gerhard Bersu. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 68(C) 1 _ 108.
- Raftery, B. 1976. Rathgall and Irish Hillfort Problems. In Harding, D. (ed.) Hillforts: Later Prehistoric Earthworks of Britain and Ireland, Academic Press, London. 339 _ 357.
- Raftery, B. 1995. The conundrum of the Irish Iron Age pottery. In Raftery, B., Megaw, V. and Rigby, V. (eds) Sites and Sights of the Iron Age. Esseys on Fieldwork and Museum Research presented to Ian Matheson Stead. Oxbow, Oxford, 149 _ 156.
- Waddell, J. 1998. The Prehistoric Archaeology of Ireland. Wordwell, Dublin.