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Magheraknock
Down, Northern Ireland ยท Atlas NI3057
Location
- Atlas number
- NI3057 (3057)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Down
- Historic county
- Down
- Parish, community, or townland
- Magheraknock
- Latitude
- 54.43387
- Longitude
- -5.92901
- Altitude
- 135 m
Form and condition
- Type
- contour fort
- Condition
- Extant
- Morphology
- univallate
- Complete rampart circuit
- Yes
- Number of ramparts
- 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.59 ha
- Footprint
- 0.76 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (South)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- hilltop
- Aspect
- level
- Land use
- pasture
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Interior and investigation
- Investigations
- Earthwork Survey (1966)
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- DOW 22:17
- HER
- Northern Ireland Sites and Monuments Record DOW022:017
- National record
- record DOW 022
- Wikidata
- Q31085004
Sources
References
- An Archaeological Survey of County Down. HMSO: Belfast (p 147)