Identifier: archaeologicaljo24brit (find matches)
Title: The Archaeological journal
Year: 1844 (1840s)
Authors: British Archaeological Association. Central Committee Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Central Committee Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Central Committee Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Council Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Royal Archaeological Institute (Great Britain)
Subjects: Archaeology -- Periodicals Middle Ages -- History Periodicals Great Britain -- Antiquities Periodicals
Publisher: (London : Longman, Rrown,(sic) Green, and Longman
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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eologia,vol. xvi. pi. lxx. We are indebted to the obliging curator of the Museum,Soc. Antiqu. Scot., Mr. MCulloch, for notices of specimens there preserved;one from Dumfriesshire may have measured, when perfect, about 13 in. inlength; another, found at Buttergash, Perthshire, close to the Roman Campat Ardoch, 12A in.; each had two rivets. 9 Vol. xviii. p. 1G0. relics found in 1859 at Pant-y-Maen, Figured Proceedings Soc. Antiqu., Cardiganshire, and there likewise figured, vol. ii. second series, p. 250. there were ferrules of a different type, 2 Proc. Soc. Ant., vol. ii. second series, of short dimensions, and dilated at their p. 250, Archjeolofjia Cambrensis, vol. x., closed extremities. In one of these part tl)ii<l8eries,pp.214,221,whereoneoftheso of the wooden shaft was to be seen. tubes is figured. Amongst the numerous ROOVESMORE FORT. PARISH OF AGLISH CO. CORK. PL I SLAB NEAR ROOVESBEC --•••• •• PLAN OF TH E FORT FIG . I. SECTION ON THE LINE\. B .FIC. 4
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■ ROOVESMORE FORT, AND STONES INSCRIBED WITH OGHAMS,IN THE PARISH OF AGLISH, COUNTY CORK. By Colonel AUGUSTUS LANE FOX, F.8 A The Fort or Rath in which these stones were found (figs.1 and 2, pi. 1) is situated on rising ground upon the farm ofMr. Good, about half way between Cork and Macroom, andto the south of the river Lee. It is of the form which is most usual in that part ofIreland, an irregular circle of about 130 ft. in diameter,measured from the crest of the innermost parapet; beyondthis there is a ditch of about 17 ft. in breadth, and beyondthe ditch another parapet of ) 0 ft. base and 3 ft. high, theditch being, as is frequently the case thereabouts, betweenthe two parapets. The inner parapet is now nearly obli-terated, but it must have originally commanded the outerone, which is better preserved. There are two entrances,one to the south-east, and the other to the south-west.The fort, if such it is, is well situated for defence, on the topof a gentle rise, and it is nowhere

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