Ceremonial enclosure

The National Monuments Service's description

This regular circular enclosure has been described as a series of narrow and weakly magnetic curving responses and trends (Target, 2018). It is most clearly visible in imagery from W to S to E, it fades from view further NE and NW and is truncated at the N by the current edge of the quarry which runs from NW to NE. It was first identified in geophysical analysis carried out on foot of previous research (Ó Lionáin and Davis, 2014). The enclosure (diam. 170m) encircles the hilltop at Windmill hill containing DU021-010----, a continuous ring-ditch at its centre. Just off-centre to the NE of DU021-010---, is DU021-009---- a cairn, and the windmill DU021-038----. It is most clearly visible in imagery from W to S to E, it fades from view further NE and NW and is truncated at the N by the current edge of the quarry which runs from NW to NE. It lies within the confines of a hillfort possible DU021-112----. Beyond the ceremonial enclosure, approximately 80m to the south-east, is a ring-ditch DU021-013----.

Compiled by: Margaret Keane

Uploaded on: 14 January 2019

References

Target Archaeological Geophysics, 2018, Geophysical Survey Report of Proposed quarry development at Windmill Hill Saggart, South County Dublin, Licence 18R0211, Unpublished report submitted to the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.

Ní Lionáin, C. and Davis, S.R. 2014, The Prehistory of the South Dublin Uplands. Unpublished report for South Dublin and Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Co. Councils.