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Larrybane
Antrim, Northern Ireland · Atlas NI1489
Location
- Atlas number
- NI1489 (1489)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Antrim
- Historic county
- Antrim
- Parish, community, or townland
- Larrybane
- Latitude
- 55.24176
- Longitude
- -6.35254
- Altitude
- 21 m
Form and condition
- Type
- promontory fort
- Condition
- Likely destroyed
- Morphology
- partial univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- No
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Ramparts by quadrant
- NE 0, SE 0, SW 1, NW 0
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 0
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 0
- Footprint
- 0.46 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- stone wall
- Enclosing works, excavated
- stone wall
- Also recorded
- ditches
Landscape
- Topographic position
- coastal promontory
- Aspect
- north
- Land use
- pasture and coastal grassland
Dating
- Dating
- AD 400–800
- Dating evidence
- Artefactual
- Dating reliability
- B - Medium
Interior and investigation
- Interior excavation
- rectangular structures
- Finds
- pottery, metal, metalworking, animal bones, lithics, and environmental material
- Investigations
- 1st Identified Map Depiction (1839); 1st Identified Written Reference (1839); Excavation (1935); Other (1994); Excavation (1960-1961)
Identifiers
- HER
- Northern Ireland Sites and Monuments Record ANT004:005
- National record
- record ANT 004
- Wikidata
- Q31083699
Sources
References
- www.ni-environment.co.uk
- Childe, V.G 1936. A promontory fort on the Antrim Coast. Antiquaries Journal 16, 179-198.
- OS memoirs of the parish of Ballintoy, Fagan 1838, Box 3, 2, 2, 63-64
- 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.