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Downpatrick
Down, Northern Ireland · Atlas NI0810
Location
- Atlas number
- NI0810 (810)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Down
- Historic county
- Down
- Parish, community, or townland
- Downwpatrick
- Latitude
- 54.32743
- Longitude
- -5.72263
- Altitude
- 21 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 2
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 2.4 ha
- Enclosing works, excavated
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture and built-up land
Dating
- Dating
- 1200–800 BC and after AD 800
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- C - Low
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- pits, postholes, and roundhouses
- Finds
- pottery and metal
- Investigations
- Excavation (1954); Excavation (1955); Excavation (1988)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- DOW 37:27
- HER
- Northern Ireland Sites and Monuments Record DOW037:027
- National record
- record DOW 037
- Wikidata
- Q31084990
Sources
References
- Proudfoot, B. 1954. Excavations at the Cathedral Hill, Downpatrick, Co. Down, 1953. Ulster Journal of Archaeology 17, 9_102.
- Proudfoot, B. 1955. Excavations at Cathedral Hill, Downpatrick, Co. Down: preliminary report on excavations in 1954. Ulster Journal of Archaeology 18, 57_72.
- Hamlin, A. and Lynn, C. 1988. Archaeological Excavations by the Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland 1970 _ 1986. Crown, Belfast.