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Knoxspark
Sligo, Republic of Ireland · Atlas IR1109
Location
- Atlas number
- IR1109 (1109)
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Sligo
- Historic county
- Sligo
- Parish, community, or townland
- Knoxspark
- Latitude
- 54.20670
- Longitude
- -8.50234
- Altitude
- 30 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 1, SE 0, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.48 ha
- Footprint
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and roundhouses
- Finds
- metal, metalworking, human bones, and animal bones
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1842); Earthwork Survey (1906); Excavation (1994); Excavation (2005); Other (2005)
Identifiers
- HER
- Archaeological Survey of Ireland SMR Database SL020-166001
- National record
- record SL 020
- Wikidata
- Q31075069
Sources
References
- Channing, J. 1997. Knoxspark, In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 1997. Wordwell, Wicklow.
- Egan, U. Byrne, E. and Sleeman, M. 2005. Archaeological Inventory of County Sligo. Dublin Stationary Office, Dublin.
- Kelly, E. 2009. Re-evaluation of a supposed inland promontory fort: Knoxspark, Co. Sligo. In G. Cooney, K. Becker, J. Coles, M. Ryan and S. Sievers (eds.) Relics of Lod Decency: Archaeological Studies in Later Prehisroty.
- Mount, C. 1995. Knoxspark, In I. Bennett (ed.) Excavations 1994. Wordwell, Wicklow, 78-9.
- Mount, C. 1994. From Knox Park to Tr na nÓg, Archaeology Ireland 29, 22-23.
- Mount, C. 2003. The promontory fort, inhumation cemetery and sub-rectangular enclosure at Knockspark, Co. Sligo, In M. Timoney (ed.), A celebration of Sligo _ First essays for the Sligo Field Club. Sligo Field Club. 103-116.