<< Text Pages >> Donegore Hill - Causewayed Enclosure in Ireland (Northern) in Co. Antrim
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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Donegore Hill Alternative Name: TobergillCountry: Ireland (Northern) County: Co. Antrim Type: Causewayed Enclosure
Nearest Town: Antrim
Latitude: 54.735657N Longitude: 6.115735W
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
| 1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
| 0 | no data |
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Causewayed Enclosure in Co. Antrim
The following description is from "Ireland - An Oxford Archaeological Guide" by Andy Halpin and Conor Newman:
"Rising to heights of 210 m and 234 m, the twin peaks of Donegore Hill are a prominent landmark to the north-east of Antrim town. The hill overlooks the upper reaches of Six Mile Water Valley and across to Lyles Hill, only 6 km to the south-east. To the west is Lough Neagh. There is a long history of diverse human activity here, even if only a small selection of the sites is accessible to the visitor. Systematic fieldwalking on the highest summit of Donegore in the early 1980s produced thousands of sherds of Neolithic pottery and lithics, including several porcellanite axes. A short exploratory excavation followed in 1983. At the same time, aerial photography by Barrie Hartwell revealed crop-marks of an interrupted, double-fossed (1–2 m deep, 3 m wide) enclosure, measuring about 200 m by 150 m. This was Ireland’s first, and so far only ‘causewayed camp’, a classic site type of the English Neolithic."
Nothing remains visible of the causewayed enclosure on the ground, however there is a huge motte at the south western foot of Donegore Hill which is believed to have been constructed on top of a Neolithic burial mound, in the middle of a passage grave cemetery.
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