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McArt's Fort
Antrim, Northern Ireland ยท Atlas NI4354
Location
- Atlas number
- NI4354 (4354)
- Country
- Northern Ireland
- Current county or unitary authority
- Antrim
- Historic county
- Antrim
- Parish, community, or townland
- Ballyaghagan
- National Grid reference
- J3250079600
- Latitude
- 54.64714
- Longitude
- -5.94815
- Altitude
- 322 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 0, SW 1, NW 1
- Number of ditches
- 1
- Possible original entrances
- 1
- Breaks through the ramparts
- 1
- Enclosed area
- 0.24 ha
- Footprint
- 0.5 ha
- Enclosing works, as visible
- earthen bank and counterscarp bank
- Also recorded
- ditches
- Entrance forms
- Simple Gap (North west)
Landscape
- Topographic position
- inland promontory
- Aspect
- north, northeast, east, southeast, south, southwest, and west
- Land use
- scrub or bracken and heather moorland
Dating
- Dating
- undated
- Dating reliability
- D - None
Identifiers
- Scheduled monument number
- ANT056:018
- HER
- Northern Ireland Sites and Monuments Record ANT056:018
- National record
- record ANT 056
- Wikidata
- Q31083782
Sources
References
- McSparron, C. 2011. Excavations at Ballyaghagan, Antrim. http://www.excavations.ie/report/2011/Antrim/0022113/
- Warner, R. 1994 A summary report on the gold object from Ballyaghagan, Cavehill. Unpublished report lodged with the NIEA.