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- Collection: The Western Stone Forts Project
Cutting 9, Dún Aonghasa. Sectional elevation showing the west revetment and ingoing of the north entrance.
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Cutting 9, Dún Aonghasa. Sectional elevation showing the east revetment and ingoing of the north entrance.
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Cutting 9/10, Dún Aonghasa. Section through the middle of the north entrance passage.
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Cutting 10, Dún Aonghasa: exterior of the doorway showing (at the right side of the door) the propping pillar resting on two pad-stones, the lower set down into a pit. Looking south.
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Cutting 9/10, Dún Aonghasa. The door passage being excavated. The scale rod leans against the inner face of the middle threshold (F904), a large stone on edge. On the right is the remains of the tightly packed rubble and dóib fill. Looking south.
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Cutting 9, Dún Aonghasa. Elevation of the north entrance showing the inner jambs and Threshold 2 fully excavated.
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Cutting 9, Dún Aonghasa. The western door jamb and (to right of scale rod) Threshold 2, showing the levelling stones under the threshold and the post-depression F1904a. Looking northwest.
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Cutting 9, Dún Aonghasa. Elevation of the inner threshold (Threshold 3). Possibly a single large boulder originally, the threshold helped to keep the revetted sides of the passage in place.
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Aerial view showing the bedrock terrace extending from Wall 3, Dún Aonghasa, to the cliff edge.
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External face of Wall 3, Dún Aonghasa, incorporating chevaux de frise pillars.
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Location of cuttings related to the outer walls and chevaux de frise, Dún Aonghasa.
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Cutting 5, Dún Aonghasa. Wall 3 on left of ranging rod; field wall on right. Some stone has been quarried from the hollow in the foreground. Looking north.
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Cutting 5, Dún Aonghasa. Plan (top) and profile of features at the surviving eastern end of Wall 3.
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Eastern end of Wall 3, Dún Aonghasa. Looking west.
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Cutting 6, Dún Aonghasa. Plan (top), elevation of east face (A-A1 lower left) and sectional profile of B-B1 of Wall 3.
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The Inner Enclosure,Dún Aonghasa, plan and profiles of Wall 1 and Wall 2b. C-C1 and F-F1 show profile across quarry trench (Cutting 4 and Cutting 14).
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Cutting 1,Dún Aonghasa. Plan of Phase 1 wall near the southwest cliff-edge terminal of Wall 1.
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Wall 1, Dún Aonghasa. Phases 1, 2 and 3 as seen under the modern rebuilding
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The remains of earlier phases of Wall 1, Dún Aonghasa, visible under the modern rebuilt southwest terminal of the wall. Wall 1 Phase 1 (lower left); Wall 1 Phase 2 (under small scale rod); Wall 1 Phase 3 (under larger rod). Looking north.
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East facing elevation of inner face of Wall 1, Dún Aonghasa, Phase 1 (directly behind scale rod). Rebuilt modern walling in background. Looking west.
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