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<< Our Photo Pages >> Knockdhu - Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle in Ireland (Northern) in Co. Antrim

Submitted by coldrum on Monday, 19 January 2009  Page Views: 30010

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Knockdhu Alternative Name: Knock Dhu
Country: Ireland (Northern) County: Co. Antrim Type: Promontory Fort / Cliff Castle
 Nearest Village: Cairncastle
Map Ref: NW493620
Latitude: 54.889676N  Longitude: 5.910837W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
3 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
3

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Knockdhu submitted by DavyOrr : Aerial view of Knockdhu promontory fort. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Promontory Fort in Co. Antrim. A series of massive earthworks, three banks and ditches running for 300 metres and cutting off the promontory from the rest of the upland Antrim plateau.

Description from the TV programme: Time Team brave the harsh conditions at Knockdhu in the County Antrim as they try to reveal the secrets of one of the biggest man-made monuments in Ireland. Working together with archaeologists from Queens University in Belfast, Tony Robinson and the team excavate the ditches and banks used by prehistoric tribes to defend the remote hillside site. After three days of work, the pieces begin to fall into place and reveal the work of a sophisticated society. "

(Time Team is the long-running UK Channel 4 TV programme)
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D3406 : Knock Dhu by Philip
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D3306 : Robin Young's Hill by Philip
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D3306 : Robin Young's Hill by Anne Burgess
by Anne Burgess
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D3406 : Knock Dhu by Jonathan Billinger
by Jonathan Billinger
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Knockdhu Street View by SteveDut on Saturday, 22 May 2010
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Re: Knockdhu by Anonymous on Monday, 19 January 2009
Lovely looking site and a great Time Team as usual. I always love their 3D reconstructions based on the archaeology. The path along the cliftops looks very ceremonial. Tony Robinson rocks!! Baldrick for President . . .
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Re: Knockdhu by Andy B on Monday, 19 January 2009
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You can get a nice terrain map outline of the hill if you click on the link for Acme mapper, then zoom right in and choose 'terrain'
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Re: Knockdhu by Andy B on Monday, 19 January 2009
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Cairncastle is about to star in its own TV programme!

The area will feature in an episode of Channel 4's Time Team following a dig carried out last year, the programme to be broadcast on 18th January.

News of that Time Team was heading to one of our most historic districts was reported by the Larne Gazette in August 2008.

It was subsequently announced that September how the Team had uncovered a number of ancient artefacts, some dating back to 2,000 BC, whilst excavating a site on the Ballycoose Road area.

There was considerable excitement in the district as it emerged that, as well as these artefacts and significant quantities of flint, the remains of a village and a considerable number of houses had been uncovered.

The dig was completed and earthworks subsequently restored by a team from Queen's University.

Furthermore, the Knockdhu find is unique in this area as the dwellings discovered did indeed prove to be Bronze Age and not, as similar finds had, from the suceeding Iron Age.

It was announced at the time that efforts had focused on some of the richly historical area's outlying ditches and barrows.

Part of an ancient fortification at the site was also amongst the range of intriguing remains investigated.

The project was undertaken as a partnership between Time Team, the Northern Ireland Environment Agency and the Queen's University of Belfast Archaeology Centre.

Speaking to the Larne Gazette last year, Dr Collam Donnelly of Queen's University explained how, after deciding to investigate this site for the programme, they "set about digging a huge trench across the ditches, etc.

“Under the direction of my colleague, Dr Philip McDonald, our targets were to try and find where the entrance to the fort would have been, what date these dwellings were from, and what defences would have been used at the fort."

Indications were that this part of Knockdhu "may have at one time been a village."

The hypothesis they were working on was that this village would have been occupied during the Bronze Age and, if so, this would be a "fairly major find."

Excavations were carried out on land belonging to Campbell Tweed.

Speaking to the Gazette at the time, Mr Tweed described how he had been approached by Time Team earlier that year.

He also discussed the work then being carried out, saying, "They are working at the top of Knockdhu, where there is part of a fortification around there, with the town boundary line just inside that, and are also looking around my neighbour Tommy Stewart's fields."

He thought they had gained a "good understanding of what the western side's defences were."

He continued, "The outer bank is clad in stone, and has remnants of postholes on the top of the wall.

“On Tommy's site, they have found at least 14 house sites and, from what I understand, they believe there may be up to 40 of these.

“The findings seem to date back as far as 1,500 to 2,000 BC."

The 18th January edition features Knockdhu, Cairncastle, County Antrim, Northern Ireland (Heroes' Hill).

Time Team is broadcast on Channel 4 each Sunday at 5.40pm.

Source: Larne Gazette
http://www.larnegazette.co.uk/articles/news/4322/time-team-tell-all/larnegazette

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