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Are all mounds or "man made" looking hills , old forts ??

  • 16-07-2013 1:27pm
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    Colash
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    I've always wondered this ? There's two in my locality and I've always wondered are they or were they hill forts ? I can find any evidence or loa cal knowledge of them being hill forts


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    the_syco
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    Could also just be debris dropped by icebergs many years ago. Do you have any pictures of said mounds, and if possible, locations?


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    Colash
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    the_syco wrote: »
    Could also just be debris dropped by icebergs many years ago. Do you have any pictures of said mounds, and if possible, locations?

    Here's what I'm referring too . It's more of a mound than a hill fort . It's too perfect looking in shape to be made by nature .


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    Colash
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    Meathlass wrote: »
    What townland are they in, Colash, do you know? Definitely look man made.

    Looks a bit like Moatquarter Motte in Tipperary.

    That's in Boyle in county roscommon . It's more or less in a field just past the forest park on the n4 to Dublin . I'm looking for an old ordinance survey map to see is it listed


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    Colash
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    Meathlass wrote: »
    Would that be around Rockingham Demense?

    Go to http://webgis.archaeology.ie/NationalMonuments/FlexViewer/

    That's exactly where it is . Do u know it ?


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    Colash
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    Ps thanks for link ;)


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    Colash
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    Meathlass wrote: »
    No, have never been to Roscommon in my life :D

    I just used www.archaeology.ie - govt site with a record of all archaeological sites. fantastic resource which isn't as widely known as it should be.

    Here's the record they have in the department for it. It's been published as well, albeit in 1845.

    Not great on prehistory but a bowl barrow is a Bronze Age funerary monument.

    Wow fair play to you for finding that . It's more than answered my question ;)


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    Fries-With-That
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    Colash wrote: »
    I've always wondered this ? There's two in my locality and I've always wondered are they or were they hill forts ? I can find any evidence or loa cal knowledge of them being hill forts

    Hi,

    I was wondering did you ever get to buy the metal detector, and if you did there is a great thread on here you should read before you use it.

    Regards,

    Fries.


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    Colash
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    Fries-With-That wrote: »
    Hi,

    I was wondering did you ever get to buy the metal detector, and if you did there is a great thread on here you should read before you use it.

    Regards,

    Fries.

    No still haven't bought one . I will in the future sometime I guess .


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