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Carnduff
Antrim, Northern Ireland ยท Atlas NI1482
Location
- Atlas number
- NI1482 (1482)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Antrim
- Historic county
- Antrim
- Parish, community, or townland
- Carnduff
- Latitude
- 55.22109
- Longitude
- -6.27309
- Altitude
- 40 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 1, SW 0, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Enclosed area
- 0.04 ha
- Footprint
- 0.05 ha
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- scrub or bracken
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Written Reference (1838); 1st Identified Map Depiction (1840); Earthwork Survey (1994)
Identifiers
- HER
- Northern Ireland Sites and Monuments Record ANT004:022
- National record
- record ANT 004
- Wikidata
- Q31083689
Sources
References
- www.ni-environment.co.uk
- OS memoirs of Ramoan Fagan 1838, Box 15, 5, 2, 65-67
- Proudfoot V.B and Wilson, B.C.S 1961. Further excavations at Larrybane Promontory Fort, Co. Antrim. Ulster Journal of Archaeology 24-25, 91-115.