Location
- Atlas number
- NI0806 (806)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Antrim
- Historic county
- Antrim
- Parish, community, or townland
- Carncastle
- Latitude
- 54.88949
- Longitude
- -5.90961
- Altitude
- 362 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial multivallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 3
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 3, NW 3
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 7.86 ha
- Footprint
- 8.21 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank and palisade
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Passage-way/Corridor (South west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop and inland promontory
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- before 1200 BC and 1200–800 BC
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual and C14
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior surface
- curvilinear platforms
- Interior excavation
- roundhouses
- Finds
- lithics
- Investigations
- Excavation (2008); LiDAR Survey (2012)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- ANT35:5
- HER
- Northern Ireland Sites and Monuments Record ANT035:005
- National record
- record ANT 035
- Wikidata
- Q31083727
Sources
References
- McNeary, R. 2012. Archaeological applications of airborne LiDAR in Northern Ireland, Case study: Knockdhu, Co. Antrim. http://www.archaeolandscapes.eu/index.php/ro/studii-de-caz/lidar/228.html.