Location
- Atlas number
- NI0805 (805)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Antrim
- Historic county
- Antrim
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ballymartin
- Latitude
- 54.67882
- Longitude
- -6.06637
- Altitude
- 219 m
Form and condition
- Type
- partial contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 0
- Possible original entrances
- 2
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 4
- Enclosed area
- 6.11 ha
- Footprint
- 6.25 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South east); Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- before 1200 BC, 1200–800 BC, and 400 BC–AD 50
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits and postholes
- Finds
- pottery, human bones, and lithics
- Investigations
- Other (1927); Excavation (1947); Excavation (1951); Excavation (1987); Excavation (1937-1938)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- ANT 56:5
- HER
- Northern Ireland Sites and Monuments Record ANT056:005
- National record
- record ANT 056
- Wikidata
- Q31083714
Sources
References
- Evans, E. 1953. Lyles Hill: a Late Neolithic Site in County Antrim. Stationary Office, Belfast.
- Gibson, A. and Simpson, D. 1987. Lyles Hill, Co. Antrim. Archaeology Ireland 1(2), 72_75.
- Simpson, D. and Gibson, S. 1989. Lyles Hill. Current Archarology 114, 214_215.