Earthwork but what exactly?
It's described as an earthwork and possible military encampment on the Sites and Monuments Record of Northern Ireland. It's not on the Atlas of Hillforts of the UK and Ireland. Most disappointingly it's not mentioned on the Megalithic Portal. But this tree-topped mound outside Portglenone has caught my eye on my infrequent visits to visit family in the area. It's officially called Knockanhead but locals call it Clements Hill. It was marked as 102ft on the OSNI Historical First Edition map (1829-35) but only 100ft on subsequent editions (and is listed at 27mo n PRONI's map viewer). The SMR recounts the OS Memoir description of a "few traces of entrenchments on the south western side... a site chosen as fit by some general." At least one other person thought it was an ancient battleground, probably drawing on the above. In a September 1927 issue of the Weekly Telegraph , someone writing about antiquities found in the Bann area writes: "At the western ...