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Spinans Hill 2
Wicklow, Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR0727
Location
- Atlas number
- IR0727 (727)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Wicklow
- Historic county
- Wicklow
- Parish, community, or townland
- Spinans Middle
- Latitude
- 52.96396
- Longitude
- -6.62481
- Altitude
- 409 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant and Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate and partial bivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 2
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 2, SE 1, SW 0, NW 2
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 3
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 3
- Enclosed area
- 130 ha
- Footprint
- 131 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- commercial forestry, pasture, scrub or bracken, and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- round stone structures and curvilinear platforms
- Investigations
- Other (1992); Other (1998); Other (2014); Other (1973-1977)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database WI027-078001
- National record
- record WI 027
- Wikidata
- Q31081349
Sources
References
- Condit, T. 1992. Irelands hillfort capital: Baltinglass, Co. Wicklow. Archaeology Ireland, 6 (3), 16 _ 20.
- Condit, T. 1998. Observations of the Baltinglass hillfort complex. Wicklow: Archaeology and History, 1, 9 _ 25.
- Corlett, C. and Weaver, M. 2002. The Liam Price Notebooks: the Placenames, Antiquities and Topography of County Wicklow, II. Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Dublin.
- O'Driscoll, J. 2014. Unpublished GPS survey report: Spinans hill 2, Co. Wicklow. UCC Cork, Dept of Archaeology.