Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Rathgall Hillfort

Rathgall Hillfort[edit]

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**Original** – Rathgall Hillfort or Ring of the Rath is a large multivallate hill fort near the town of Shillelagh. Dating from the Bronze Age, it consists of three roughly concentric stone ramparts with a fourth masonry wall dating from the Medieval period at its centre.

Reason: Impressive and dramatic picture of Rathgall Hillfort, with high encyclopedic value, winner of first place in WLM 2014 Ireland
Articles in which this image appears: Rathgall Hillfort, List of National Monuments in County Wicklow, List of National Monuments in Leinster
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Places/Landscapes (?)
Creator: Simon.dowling1

Support as nominator – Tomer T (talk) 13:59, 14 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Comment. It is hard to get any impression of any "hill" from this photo. In fact, the site looks very flat. 86.190.48.52 (talk) 20:29, 14 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
- A couple of thoughts on that. Firstly, different images do different things. An aerial perspective is not likely to tell us much about topography but is likely to give us a good impression of the layout. Secondly, it doesn't actually seem to be much of a hill. TownCows (talk) 00:48, 15 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I see what you mean ... I assumed from the name that being on a hill was an essential aspect of this fort, but it seems that "hill fort" may be a misnomer. 86.190.48.52 (talk) 04:53, 15 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support - other views will show other information, but this is valuable for the information it shows that other views would not. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 11:50, 18 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Aerial perspective show landscape from above. Hafspajen (talk) 23:08, 19 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support as above. TownCows (talk) 07:22, 21 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Reluctant oppose - for use in articles, we should have JPGs. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:06, 23 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 14:00, 24 November 2014 (UTC)[reply]